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Decisions for Tomorrow FRONT PAGE Material Wealth vs. Social Health National income accounts are regularly reported and widely quoted They do not, however, adequately reflect the nation's social performance To measure more accurately the country's social health, a Vassar College team of social scientists devised an Index of Social Health with 16 indicators, including infant mortality, drug abuse, health insurance coverage, and poverty among the aged. According to this index, America's social health increased only 6 percent from 1990 to 2011, despite a 34 percent increase in real GDP per capita Source: Data from Institute for Innovation in Social Policy (Vassar College). 135 130 125 120 115 110 105 100 95 90 85 1990 Real GDP per capita 1995 Social health 2000 YEAR 2005 2010 ✓the rise in U.S. well-being since 1990 a. Per capita GDP data (Click to select) (Click to select) overstate b. How do you know? neither overstate nor understate O Real per capita understate the growth in social health. O Real per capita GDP growth is the same as the growth in social health. O Real per capita GDP growth is much greater than the growth in social health.

Decisions for Tomorrow FRONT PAGE Material Wealth vs. Social Health National income accounts are regularly reported and widely quoted They do not, however, adequately reflect the nation's social performance To measure more accurately the country's social health, a Vassar College team of social scientists devised an Index of Social Health with 16 indicators, including infant mortality, drug abuse, health insurance coverage, and poverty among the aged. According to this index, America's social health increased only 6 percent from 1990 to 2011, despite a 34 percent increase in real GDP per capita Source: Data from Institute for Innovation in Social Policy (Vassar College). 135 130 125 120 115 110 105 100 95 90 85 1990 Real GDP per capita 1995 Social health 2000 YEAR 2005 2010 ✓the rise in U.S. well-being since 1990 a. Per capita GDP data (Click to select) (Click to select) overstate b. How do you know? neither overstate nor understate O Real per capita understate the growth in social health. O Real per capita GDP growth is the same as the growth in social health. O Real per capita GDP growth is much greater than the growth in social health.

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