“Reports to the Surgeon General represent the final word upon the efficient and devoted sense of responsibility of our people in this obligation to our fellow citizens. Overwhelmingly they confirm the fact that the general mortality rate, infant mortality rate, epidemics, the disease rate - are less than in normal times. There is but one explanation. That is, that through an aroused sense of public responsibility, those in destitution and their children are receiving actually more adequate care than even in normal times.” PeopleChildrenFactsCareResponsibilityCitizensDiseaseNormalFellowsFinalsRateObligationExplanationReportsMortalityEfficientReceivingDevotedInfantAdequateSurgeonsEpidemicsSense Of ResponsibilityFinal WordsInfant Mortality Author:Herbert Hoover
“Many scales of climate change are in fact natural, from the slow tectonic scale, to the fast changes embedded within glacial and interglacial times, to the even more dramatic changes that characterize a switch from glacial to interglacial. So why worry about global warming, which is just one more scale of climate change? The problem is that global warming is essentially off the scale of normal in two ways: the rate at which this climate change is taking place, and how different the "new" climate is compared to what came before.” WayTwoDifferentFactsProblemNaturalWorryNormalClimateRateClimate ChangeScalesDramaticJust OneGlobal WarmingTwo WaysEmbeddedDramatic Change Book:Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming Source: Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming
“What most Americans mean when they say "the end of the recession" is, "When will it be back to normal? When can we get jobs? When will the employment rate be back to 4 percent or 5 percent?"” MeanEndsJobsNormalPercentRateEmploymentRecessions Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“Millions of people are unable to vote due to felony convictions with the highest rates among black men. People in prison are denied the right to vote in 48 states, and while we accept that as normal in the United States, in other western democracies people in prison do have the right to vote.” PeopleMenStatesBlackUnitedAcceptingMillionsUnited StatesDemocracyNormalHighestVotePrisonWesternRateConvictionDuesDeniedRight To VoteFelony Author:Michelle Alexander
“What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they're learned to do more with less, and so they don't hire.” PeopleBigsJobsDangerNormalRateProfitStuckIncomeUnemploymentUnemployment RateNew Normal Author:Barack Obama