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- April 24th 2013Leon Sigal, director of the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project, discusses escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula in "Better Understanding North Korea," a Q&A with the Federation of American Scientists’ Strategic Security Blog →
- April 22nd 2013Watch a video recording of the Eurasia Program’s webinar “Cultural Context and Measurement Validity in Comparative Survey Research," the latest in the Issues in Quantitative Methods in Eurasian Studies series →
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March 2013
- March 22nd 2013
- "Am I Poor?": watch Measure of America codirector Kristen Lewis on a HuffPost Live panel about defining and measuring poverty →
- March 1st 2013
- Measure of America codirectors Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis write op-ed for Stanford Social Innovation Review on "The State of America's Well-being" →
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October 2012
- October 23rd 2012
- Measure of America codirector Kristen Lewis describes the diminished economic security of middle-class American families for U.S. News and World Report →
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September 2009
- September 18th 2009
- CBS affiliate WWL-TV Channel carries story on SSRC's A Portrait of Louisiana, leads with stats on life expectancy for African Americans in New Orleans. →
- September 11th 2009
- SSRC’s American Human Development Project announces the release of A Portrait of Louisiana, available Sept 17. →
May 2009
- May 28th 2009
- Program directors Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis guest blog on NYT’s Economix about importance of measuring human development within America. →
- May 18th 2009
- “We Can Pay for Education Today–Or Prisons Tomorrow”: the very first Huffington Post blog entry by program directors Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis. →
- May 13th 2009
- Article about the Common Good Forecaster, new tool of the American Human Development Report, appears in USA Today. →
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