America makes the money. Who gets the life?

Family Time 3.1, 25/35/25/15. The BLS records 5.2% multiple jobholders in May 2026. A second job, patchy leave and expenses eat family evenings despite normal average hours. The two newly evaluated beleshkies reflect time used for paid and unpaid work, and real time left at home. Source https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/empsit_06052026.htm

Time-use research finds uneven unpaid domestic and care work even in a smaller Nordic economy. Registered employment data cannot alone quantify every second job or after-hours duty.

The United States has enormous physical housing capacity and near-universal plumbing, but shelter reach is materially weaker than stock suggests. In 2024, 46.23% of renter households were cost-burdened, median gross rent reached $1,487 and the median renter spent 31% of income on rent and utilities. Homeownership was 65.0% in Q2 2026, while HUD counted 745,652 people homeless on one night in January 2025. GAO finds institutional investors are a real but limited part of the national picture—about 1–3% of all single-family homes in six studied metros in 2024—so the negative score is driven by affordability and reach, not a claim that large investors own most U.S. homes.

Average Åland rent was €12.74 per square metre in April 2026; housing costs and the limited island stock restrict reach despite functioning rental supply.

America has extraordinary food-production capacity, but the category asks whether nourishment actually reaches people and whether abundance is multiplied rather than wasted. USDA reports 13.7% of households were food insecure in 2024 and 5.4% experienced very low food security; EPA states that 30–40% of the U.S. food supply is never eaten. Under the TBF standard, strong physical supply therefore no longer outweighs money-gated reach, food insecurity and large loss/waste.

Free school lunches are universal within basic education but do not supply ordinary adult household food without payment; island retail and farming provide physical supply.

Household plumbing reach remains very high and most public water systems reported no drinking-water violations in 2024. The deeper pass nevertheless counts the infrastructure burden directly: 31% of active public water systems reported at least one violation, 7% had a health-based violation, EPA estimates 9.2 million lead service lines, and the 20-year drinking-water infrastructure need is $625 billion. Under the TBF water-intelligence standard, high capacity therefore earns less credit when safe reach still depends on a large repair backlog.

Åland distributed over 2.4 million cubic metres of water in 2025; supply is substantial, while household provision remains billed and must be environmentally maintained.

The United States has exceptional energy capacity, but household reach and burden return are weaker than production totals suggest. EIA reports 13.4 million residential electricity disconnections for bill nonpayment in 2024, while fossil fuels still supplied about 58% of utility-scale electricity generation in 2025 and renewables were only about 9% of total U.S. energy consumption. The TBF standard therefore separates national production from dependable household capability.

Wind supplied about 58% of electricity acquisition in 2024, while 36% was imported from Sweden. Households still pay electricity tariffs.

The United States has deep clinical and medical capacity, and 92.1% of people had health insurance for at least part of 2025. Reach is nevertheless heavily friction-loaded: 7.9% were uninsured for the full year, CMS reports $15,474 in health spending per person and $556.6 billion in out-of-pocket spending in 2024, and maternal mortality remained 17.9 per 100,000 live births. CDC final data show life expectancy improved to 79.0 years in 2024, so the score keeps that positive outcome while sharply reducing the credit given to expensive capacity that does not translate cleanly into household reach.

ÅHS delivers wide public healthcare and free maternal, child and school services; adult patient fees and an annual fee cap prevent an unrestricted no-money access claim.

Formal educational reach and adult attainment are broad, but foundational outcomes materially weaken the capability reading. In 2024 only 31% of fourth-graders were at or above NAEP Proficient in reading, 40% were below NAEP Basic, and only 28% of eighth-graders were at or above NAEP Proficient in mathematics. Under the NoDumbDumbs capability standard, institutional capacity cannot outweigh weak demonstrated foundational mastery.

Primary school is free, including materials, meals and school transport; post-compulsory pathways and apprenticeships broaden learning.

America has enormous road, aviation and vehicle capacity, but everyday movement remains strongly car-dependent and time-consuming. Census reports a 27.2-minute mean one-way commute in 2024, 9.3% of workers travelling 60 minutes or more one way, only 3.7% using public transportation and 69.2% driving alone. NHTSA estimates 36,640 road deaths in 2025. Under the TBF reach-and-time standard, physical transport capacity therefore receives much less credit when ordinary movement still requires substantial household time, vehicle dependence and safety exposure.

Island buses and ferries provide essential connections. Regular adult bus tickets are fare-based; school journeys are free under education rules.

Family households remain common and most family households are married-couple households, which is positive evidence. The continuity picture is nevertheless materially strained under the TBF family-centered standard: one-person households are 29%, fertility is at a record low, paid-family-leave reach is incomplete, and 39.5% of 2024 births were to unmarried women. These indicators do not prove the quality of any individual household; they are used as national family-formation and continuity signals alongside the Trott Bailey Family authored standard.

Family services and schooling support households but Åland fertility was 1.291 in 2024, below the TBF 2.1 floor and 5.0 target; younger births improved in 2025.

America has enormous physical acreage and low average population density, but this category measures ordinary access to productive ground and settlement freedom. USDA reports average farm real estate at $4,500 per acre in 2026 and a 6.8% nominal annualized rise from 2020 to 2025. Under the TBF spatial-freedom standard, abundant national land no longer receives a strong positive score when practical acquisition and family settlement remain heavily price-gated.

Åland domicile rights protect local land holding, but non-domiciled persons normally need a permit; paid property remains the prevailing route into settlement.

The United States has enormous recreational and cultural capacity, including 433 National Park Service areas and more than 323 million recreation visits in 2025. The household-life reading is much weaker: CDC reports 12.5% of adults regularly experiencing worry, nervousness or anxiety in 2025 and a final 2024 age-adjusted suicide rate of 13.7 per 100,000. The category therefore keeps credit for accessible public nature while sharply reducing the assumption that national amenity capacity equals everyday peace of mind.

A demilitarised, neutralised island setting, living coast and public life offer uncommon peaceful surroundings; service access varies across the archipelago.

The United States retains vast forests and its net greenhouse-gas emissions are below 2005 levels, but absolute ecological pressure remains large. The latest national wetland status report estimates a net loss of 221,000 acres from 2009 to 2019 and a 670,000-acre loss of vegetated wetlands. Under the TBF living-ground standard, retained natural capacity therefore does not outweigh continuing habitat loss and high material/emissions pressure.

Environmental and water monitoring and conservation exist; the Baltic setting and continuing material generation show resilience is an active task, not a completed state.

Physical safety improved materially in 2025: the FBI final release reports a 9.3% decline in the violent-crime rate and an 18.1% decline in murder and nonnegligent manslaughter. Institutional friction remains substantial in the latest BJS jail series: 658,700 people were held in local jails at midyear 2024 and 68% were unconvicted. The TBF reading therefore preserves the safety improvement while sharply reducing credit for a justice system with large pretrial-custody and administrative burdens.

Longstanding autonomy, parliament and demilitarisation support local administration; residence and land permissions create distinct procedural gates for newcomers.

The United States has major manufacturing, maintenance and recycling capacity, but national material-return evidence remains weak and dated. EPA’s latest national municipal-waste series reports 292.4 million tons of waste, 4.9 pounds per person per day, a 32.1% recycling/composting rate and only about 9% plastics recycling in 2018. FTC repair findings document multiple forms of repair restriction. The score therefore treats high material throughput and repair friction as substantial losses while keeping coverage at 90% because the national waste series is stale.

Åland generated around 53,600 tonnes of waste in 2024. About 27,300 tonnes were treated locally and 19,100 transported off-island for treatment or reuse, mainly to Sweden and mainland Finland.

The US retains pathways for many visitors, migrants and family members but 2026 nationality-based visa restrictions now cover 39 countries. Refugee and family-entry continuity are constrained. Under the four published welcome beleshkies, capacity does not establish accessible entry, and restrictions receive a negative reach/continuity judgment. Immigration impacts vary by nationality and visa type; the review does not treat a denied visa as an observed fertility effect.

Åland receives migrants and benefits from Finnish/EU entry routes, but local domicile for full land/civic rights requires Finnish citizenship, Swedish language and residence.

Footprint 3.1 weights 25/25/20/30. Export -60 (15%), import -25 (15%). Large outward used-clothing tonnage (673.7 million kg) and plastic scrap exports; receiving-country processing burden materially exported, while some plastic is recoverable. Plastic scrap imports of US$385.66m also expose national collection/reprocessing pressure; recycling usefulness not assumed. BASEL reference https://www.basel.int/Default.aspx?tabid=8427

Regional peace and autonomy are a documented useful outward example. Yet 19,100 tonnes of waste left Åland in 2024 for processing/reuse; role judgment export −40, import 0 due no matched inbound flow figure.