News

September 2013

September 4th 2013
Measure of America codirectors Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis contributed a chapter titled "Well-Being in the Golden State: The Five Californias of the Human Development Index" to the third edition of Governing California: Politics, Government, and Public Policy in the Golden State (Institute of Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley, 2013) →

August 2013

August 28th 2013
Measure of America's work on disconnected youth is featured in an Arizona Central report on Phoenix →

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 28th 2013
The Measure of America 2013-2014 featured in an article from Vice Media's Motherboard: "America's Fracking Economy Isn't Helping Anyone" →
June 26th 2013
"Is Connecticut the Best State Now?" Slate looks at human development in New England while reporting on The Measure of America 2013-2014 →
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 →

April 2013

April 1st 2013
California's Dominican University responds to Measure of America's A Portrait of Marin with art project on educational inequality →

March 2013

March 11th 2013
Measure of America's One in Seven report expands on previous findings and recommendations for education reform in Arizona, according to a Tucson Sentinel opinion piece →
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" →

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 →