Giving Compass' Take:

• Global Citizen reports on the latest Social Progress Index, a report from the Social Progress Imperative, which shows that the U.S. is the only wealthy nation that has regressed in the past few years due to a number of changes.

· Some of these factors include: access to education, individual safety, individual rights and the decline of health standards. What can we do to address these issues, both in the private and public sectors?

• Check out this piece about the American Well-Being Project and the country's problems with division.

The world remains a deeply unequal place, and as social progress accelerates in some countries, it’s stalling or even declining in others, according to the nonprofit the Social Progress Imperative.

Over the past four years, the world improved the most in terms of access to water and sanitation and basic nutrition, while social inclusiveness and access to higher education showed the most decline.

On the nonprofit’s latest Social Progress Index, released recently, countries were given scores out of 100 based on various measurements that were grouped in three broad categories: basic human needs, foundations of well-being, and opportunity.

Out of 146 countries studied, Norway scored the best, and the Central African Republic scored worst.

If the world average was distilled into a country, then it would fall between Botswana and the Philippines, respectively ranked 90 and 91.

Dozens of countries received higher scores compared to four years ago, including Nepal, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Swaziland, Myanmar, and Tanzania, which all improved by the largest margins.

Read the full article about the Social Progress Index by Joe McCarthy at Global Citizen.