“American Inequality Highlighted by 30-year Gap in Life Expectancy
July 17, 2008 – Independent (UK)
Measuring America
July 17, 2008 – Time Magazine
Part of Central Valley Ranks Last in National Study of Quality of Life
July 17, 2008 – Los Angeles Times
Development: US fails to Measure up on ‘Human Index’
July 17, 2008 – UK Guardian
Hard to be an Optimistic American
July 16, 2008 – Daily Kos
Results are in: California’s San Joaquin Valley is the Worst
July 16, 2008 – McClatchy Newspapers
Florida Ranks 24th in New Measure of U.S. Well-Being
July 16, 2008 – Tampa Tribune
National Press Club Unveiling, July 16, 2008
The American Human Development Project released “The Measure of America” on July 16th at a news conference held at the National Press Club.
Welcome to the American Human Development Project Blog, Human Development in the News.
Our aim with the American Human Development Project is to introduce to our own country an international approach and tool for measuring human well-being that we’ve seen used around the world with great success – the human development approach and the human development index. Human development is, in the words of Amartya Sen, about “advancing the richness of human life” and expanding the opportunities, choices, and freedoms of ordinary people. With our book, The Measure of America, and this website, we hope to stimulate fact-based public dialogue and debate about human development here at home.
U.S. Human Development Report Release, July 16, 2008
The American Human Development Project will release “The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009,” the first-ever report about human development in the United States