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- September 24th 2013Tenured humanities and social sciences faculty: the DPDF Faculty Field Competition closes in one week (applications due October 1) →
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- September 10th 2013The Gender, Security and HIV/AIDS Program's publication The Fourth Wave: Violence, Gender, Culture & HIV in the 21st Century is now available as a free download from UNESCO [PDF] →
- September 10th 2013Forbes reviews 22 Ideas to Fix the World, out today from NYU Press/SSRC →
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Featured Essays
- October 1st 2013Kujenga Amani launches Radar, a feature section on breaking events, with “The Westgate Mall Siege: Reassessing Kenya’s Security Architecture,” by Awino Okech, advisory board member for the African Peacebuilding Network →
- September 26th 2013Read about practices of prayer in Quebec in "Wayside Crosses," by Hillary Kaell, the latest essay in the Reverberations Materiality of Prayer series →
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July 2013
- July 22nd 2013
- Measure of America codirector Sarah Burd-Sharps was a panelist at the Oxfam America "Voices on US Poverty" event, held in Washington DC on July 12 →
- July 18th 2013
- US News & World Report talks with Measure of America codirector Sarah Burd-Sharps: "Latinos Outlive Whites in the US by Four Years" →
- July 12th 2013
- Measure of America's A Portrait of California featured in NPR All Tech Considered article, "Closing the Tech Industry's Gender Gap Requires Better Data" →
- July 10th 2013
- Measure of America codirectors Kristen Lewis and Sarah Burd-Sharps write for the Huffington Post on the societal risks of ignoring non-income inequalities →
- July 3rd 2013
- The Seattle Times reports that Measure of America's American Human Development Index "is as close to a gold standard as we're likely to find" →
June 2013
- June 24th 2013
- The Measure of America 2013-2014 featured in the Baltimore Sun, with a focus on Maryland's ranking on the American Human Development Index →
- June 21st 2013
- "Americans Healthier, More Educated—and Poorer": Bloomberg reports on Measure of America findings →
- June 21st 2013
- American Public Media's Marketplace looks at the Measure of America program's American Human Development Index and presents data from their latest report, The Measure of America 2013-2014 →
- June 20th 2013
- Chelsea Clinton cites Measure of America's 2012 report One in Seven: Ranking Youth Disconnection in the 25 Largest Metro Areas in an article for the Huffington Post →
- June 20th 2013
- "Well Being Rises in Every State but Michigan": the Wall Street Journal reports on Measure of America's analysis of human development in the United States since 2000 →
- June 19th 2013
- Just released: The Measure of America 2013–2014, the third national report from the Measure of America program, uses the American Human Development Index to assess the current state of health, education, and earnings across the United States →
March 2013
February 2013
- February 7th 2013
- Measure of America codirector Sarah Burd-Sharps will speak on higher education standards for a competitive US economy at the World Affairs 2013 conference in San Francisco on March 7 →
- February 1st 2013
- Measure of America codirector Sarah Burd-Sharps talks to Roll Call about MOA findings in their new State of the Congress infographic →
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- October 22nd 2012
- Measure of America codirector Sarah Burd-Sharps talks with WNYC public radio about the extreme highs and lows of youth disconnection in New York City →
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