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We’ve got a stock market and a Gross Domestic Product to tell us how our economy is doing. But how are people doing? That is the question that informed a new and provocative book called , a report that uses indicators in three areas – income levels, health and education – to determine whether the conditions in our society are constraining or expanding people’s well-being. 

Co-authors Kristen Lewis and Sarah Burd-Sharps have synthesized reams of statistics at the state and Congressional district level to deliver a richly textured snapshot of how the United States is faring when it comes to developing the potential of our people. and easy-to-understand graphics are a hallmark of the new book and website, which is part of the American Human Development Project at the Social Science Research Council.  The ¹ú²úÊÓƵ Foundation recently held about the book – complete with – and today we speak with Kristen Lewis about what the book’s findings tell us about the health of the education system throughout the country.

Early Ed Watch podcast – April 19, 2011

Podcast: How Does Your State Stack Up on Measures of Human Development?

With our guest Kristen Lewis, co-author of The Measure of America: Mapping Risks and Resilience.

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