tailieunhanh - A portrait of Louisiana

Louisiana has great success stories to tell—from its maturing status as the most prepared region in the country, to the burgeoning class of solution-minded innovators and social entrepreneurs, to the renaissance of civic participation that promises to stoke long-term improvements. The state has below-average unemployment rates, in part due to significant | AMERICAN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT PROJECT A publication of the American Human Development Project of the Social Science Research Council Commissioned by Oxfam America and the Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation A PORTRAIT OF LOUISIANA LOUISIANA HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2009 WRITTEN AND COMPILED BY Sarah Burd-Sharps Kristen Lewis and Eduardo Borges Martins WITH FOREWORD BY Flozell Daniels Jr. Contents Foreword by Flozell Daniels Understanding Human Louisiana in the First American Human Development About Human Louisiana What the Human Development Index Human Development Trends in the State Since Presenting the Human Development Index for Moving Beyond the Basics Other Critical Factors that Contribute to Human Premature Death Infant Mortality and Housing 37 Environmental Sustainability and Mental Education 49 Income 49 Other Human Development 52 Louisiana Human Development Indicators. Louisiana Human Development Index 55 Louisiana Human Development Indicator Tables 60 Methodological Maps of Parishes and Parish Key Facts about Who Are We .96 Copyright 2009 American Human Development Project. All Rights Reserved. Acknowledgments Sincere thanks to those whose efforts and contributions made this report possible Ivye L . Allen Michael Babwahsingh Andrew Blejwas Joan Borstell Jaewon Chung Evan Dody Melissa Field Davida Finger Linetta Gilbert Rhonda Jackson Josh Jarrett Bob Land Jerry Maldonado Alissa Neil National Priorities Project Ajulo Othow Elizabeth Pastor Ashley Shelton Minor Sinclair Trang Tu Mark Vanlandingham Garry VanPatter Jasmine Waddell Nancy Watts and Landon R . Williams . Thanks to our valued colleagues at Humantific UnderstandingLab for their gift of making sense of all the numbers and presenting information in a .