News

January 2012

January 18th 2012
Download A Portrait of Marin, the first county-level report from the American Human Development Project
January 9th 2012
AHDP staff propose a model for assessing the impacts of community lending in "Metrics Matter" for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's Community Development Investment Review

November 2011

November 2nd 2011
Sarah Burd-Sharps, co-director of the American Human Development Project, to speak at the Opportunity Nation Summit Nov. 3 and 4

October 2011

October 27th 2011
Measure of America series wins International Institute of Information Design Award 2011
October 17th 2011
Staff of the American Human Development Project will present their work at several upcoming California events
October 3rd 2011
NYTimes reports on SSRC-AHDP analysis of earnings changes during the recession and what they mean for women's equality
October 3rd 2011
Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis (co-directors of AHDP) ask "Could London-style Riots Happen in New York City?" for The Nation

July 2011

July 8th 2011
America gets measured and the results aren't pretty: interview with SSRC's Sarah Burd-Sharps

June 2011

June 29th 2011
Kristen Lewis and Sarah Burd-Sharps, directors of the American Human Development Project, on the new OECD index and measuring a better life, at Huffington Post

May 2011

May 23rd 2011
RSVP for a webinar (June 3) with AHDP co-directors on the Common Good Forecaster
May 9th 2011
The American Human Development Project will hold three public events the week of May 16th to launch their latest report, A Portrait of California

March 2011

March 3rd 2011
On March 2nd the American Human Development Project briefed members of Congress on findings in The Measure of America 2010-11

February 2011

February 24th 2011
William Easterly digs in to AHDP's data visualization tools to illustrate "Third World America" at his blog, Aid Watch

October 2010

October 28th 2010
SSRC and AHDP invite you to the launch of The Measure America 2010-2011: Mapping Risks and Resilience. Nov 10th in D.C., Nov 17th in NYC
October 8th 2010
Read an “open letter” to Obama’s Debt Commission calling for investments in prevention of future debt, by SSRC's American Human Development Project and others [PDF]

June 2010

June 1st 2010
AHDP Director Sarah Burd-Sharps interviewed by PBS for “Need to Know” segment

May 2010

May 7th 2010
Kristen Lewis & Sarah Burd-Sharps of SSRC’s American Human Development Project respond to David Brooks in the NY Times
May 5th 2010
New report from SSRC’s American Human Development Project cited by David Brooks in NY Times

April 2010

April 29th 2010
American Human Development Project releases report “A Century Apart” with new data on well-being for U.S. racial and ethnic groups

March 2010

March 11th 2010
A new American Human Development Project report compares health care costs between U.S. states and 80 countries