8 results in Publications & Writing
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1. Publications & Writing
A Century Apart: New Measures of Well-being for U.S. Racial and Ethnic Groups
Our national conversation about race tends to take place in black and white, yet the greatest disparities in human well-being to be found in the U.S. are between Asian Americans in New Jersey and Native Americans in South Dakota. An entire century of human progress separates the…
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2. Publications & Writing
A Portrait of California
A Portrait of California goes beyond the state’s fiscal and budgetary woes to examine the well-being of its people using the American Human Development Index, a measure based on official government data in health, education, and living standards. This timely report introduces t…
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3. Publications & Writing
A Portrait of Louisiana
Louisiana ranks 49th among U.S. states and Washington, D.C. on the American Human Development Index, with wide disparities within the state. This new study examines disparities by parish, race, and gender in Louisiana, and calls for action to address the acute human vulnerability…
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4. Publications & Writing
A Portrait of Marin
Some Marinites are enjoying extraordinarily high levels of well-being and access to opportunity, while others are experiencing levels of health, education, and standard of living that prevailed in the nation three decades ago. At the top of the rankings is Ross (HDI: 9.70), with…
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5. Publications & Writing
A Portrait of Mississippi
Mississippi ranks last among U.S. states on the American Human Development Index. But some groups in the state enjoy well-being levels similar to those in top-ranked Connecticut, while others experience levels of human development of the average American nearly a half century ago…
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6. Publications & Writing
Common Good Forecaster
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7. Publications & Writing
The Measure of America 2010–2011: Mapping Risks and Resilience
Whites in Washington, DC, live, on average, twelve years longer than African Americans in the same city. In the 2007–9 Great Recession, college graduates faced an un- and underemployment rate of one in ten; the rate for high school dropouts was greater than one in three. In…
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8. Publications & Writing
The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009
The Measure of America is the first-ever measure of the status of human development in the United States or any developed nation and provides a snapshot of Americans’ well-being by state, congressional district, gender, race and ethnicity. Using U.S. government statistics on lo…
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