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 lifenot how much but how good.
This is the basic argument of a farewell gift to President...