This week, A Portrait of Mississippi: Mississippi Human Development Report 2009 was launched in Jackson, Mississippi. It is the first special project follow up to The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008–2009, published in 2008 by Columbia University Press.
Mississippi ranks last among U.S. states on the American Human Development Index. This Social SenseMaking Study examines disparities by county, race, and gender. Enormous challenges exist in Mississippi that we hope to bring increased attention and understanding to.
Commissioned by the Mississippi State Conference NAACP and funded by Oxfam America, A Portrait of Mississippi was undertaken by the American Human Development Project team and Humantific.
The Measure of America and A Portrait of Mississippi were both designed to be evidence-based catalysts for societal change in the United States.
Recent News:
New Report Finds Health and Income Disparities Among Mississippians
Why Boys Fail – Life as a black male in Mississippi…
Study: Life span of black males in Miss. shorter
