Social Policy: A Measure of Quality

The U.S. Government produces $150 million worth of statistics a year on everything from coal production to babies. Many of these figures form the basis of the President's annual Economic Report, a key aid to businessmen and Government planners in measuring the nation's economic health. Now a task force of experts has shown how this mountain of figures, plus a number of critical new ones, could be used by social scientists to prepare an annual report that would measure the quality of American life—not how much but how good.

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