The American Human Development Project's mission is to stimulate fact-based public debate about and political attention to human development issues in the United States and to empower people to hold elected officials accountable for progress on issues we all care about: health, education and income.

The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009 is modeled on the United Nations Development Programme’s global Human Development Report, which has provided authoritative analysis and a ranked index for countries around the world for almost two decades. The Measure of America is the first time the human development approach has been applied in the United States or any other industrialized nation. Read more | Order from Amazon
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