The Measure of America / American Human Development Report 2008-2009 continues to inspire dialogue regarding the many social innovation challenges facing the United States.
An article written by Kristen Lewis and Sarah Burd-Sharps, co-directors of the American Human Development Project, appeared this week in the New York Times / Economix.
“In 2008, we constructed a first-ever American Human Development Index to assess the relative well-being of different groups of Americans. Our index is not comparable to the global Human Development Index produced by the U.N. Development Program, a measure that looks at the social and economic development of different countries. The U.N. index, which is rooted in the work of the Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, was, however, the model for our index.”
Read the entire New York Times article here:
Going Back in Time: Progress, or Lack Thereof, Around the Country
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