After comparing various unequal countries and American states with more equal ones, the authors concluded that greater inequality leads to more crime, higher infant mortality, fatter citizens, shorter lives, more teenage pregnancies, more discrimination against women and so on.

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The rate of teenage pregnancies among under 16s in deprived areas was more than four times that in the least deprived.

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