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Free Lance-Star, VA, October 26, 2008

“For Many Families, Gap’s Getting Wider”

Index Journal, SC, October 19, 2008

“Author Says Middle Class Status Not What It Used To Be”

Montgomery Advertiser, AL, October 19, 2008

“Watch Out For Pitfalls During Financial Turmoil”

Index Journal, SC, October 12, 2008

“Study Puts Focus on Improving Schools”

Reston Connection, VA, October 1, 2008

“Rail, Economy On Table”

Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 25, 2008

“Health Care: The Other Answer”

Metro Spirit, GA, September 17, 2008

Metro Spirit Book Review

New York Times, August 31, 2008

“Hey Big Number, Make Room For The Rest Of Us”

International Herald Tribune, August 31, 2008

“Forming A More Perfect Measure”

Santa Monica Daily Press, August 20, 2008

“Improving the Human Condition”

Audio: Bread and Roses, KBOO, August 15, 2008

Interview with Co-Author Kristen Lewis

PolySigh, August 5, 2008

“The American Human Development Report”

Audio: Chicago Public Radio, August 4, 2008

“U.S. Lags Behind on Human Development Index”

Battleboro Reformer, August 2, 2008

“A Measure of Who We Are”

Northwest Indiana and Illinois Times, July 28, 2008

“Quality of Life Study; Live Longer, Prosper Elsewhere”

Bakersfield Californian, July 26, 2008

“Poor Ranking A Part of Life for Kern”

Audio: Saturday Morning Talkies, KPFA, July 26, 2008

Interview with Co-Author Kristen Lewis

Step Forward, July 25, 2008

Commentary by the President of the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law

Falls Church News-Press, VA, July 24, 2008

Congressman Jim Moran’s News Commentary

Los Angeles Times, July 23, 2008

“$217 Million per hour on healthcare, but U.S. still falls Short”

OC Register, July 22, 2008

“Study: Coastal OC Healthy, Wealthy, Wise”

Reuters, July 22, 2008

“Moderate and Lower Earners Under More Pressure”

BBC News, July 22, 2008

“US slips down development Index”

Audio: Day To Day, NPR, July 21, 2008

“Tough Economic Times in Fresno”

San Mateo Daily News, July 18, 2008

“Peninsula High in Human Development”

Bakersfield Now, CA, July 18, 2008

“New report ranks the San Joaquin Valley one of the nation’s Poorest”

Philanthropy News Digest, Foundation Center , July 18, 2008

“Human Development Project Introduces New Measurement of Americans’ Well-Being”

Audio: The Takeaway, PRI, July 18, 2008

Radio Interview with John Hockenberry

San Jose Mercury News, CA, July 17, 2008

“San Joaquin Valley ranks last in poverty Study”

Hickory Daily Record, NC, July 17, 2008

“The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009”

The Washington Times, July 17, 2008

“New Study Ranks U.S. Well-Being”

The Independent (UK), July 17, 2008

“American inequality highlighted by 30-year gap in life Expectancy”

Time Magazine, July 17, 2008

“Measuring America”

Los Angeles Times, July 17, 2008

“Part of Central Valley ranks last in national study of quality of Life”

The UK Guardian, July 17, 2008

“Development: US fails to Measure up on ‘Human Index’”

Daily Kos, July 16, 2008

“Hard to be an Optimistic American”

McClatchy Newspapers, July 16, 2008

“Results are in: California’s San Joaquin Valley is the Worst”

The Tampa Tribune, FL, July 16, 2008

“Florida Ranks 24th in New Measure of U.S. Well-Being”

The Chronicle of Philanthropy, July 16, 2008

“Report Details Best and Worst U.S. Locations for ‘Human Development’”

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