The American Human Development Project has a special metric for measuring the progress and state of the US called the “Human Development Index”. This is computed by collecting data from a wide variety of sources and measuring health, knowledge, and the standard of living and presenting them as a uniform composite measure. They’ve got a fantastic PDF detailing how the index is computed and an interactive widget showing the data across various demographics (States, congressional districts, races, etc).
Extracts — Measure of America: American Human Development Project.
