CQ Press: State Rankings 2009, Kathleen O'Leary Morgan , Scott Morgan

How does your state rate in terms of air quality or population growth? Is your state keeping up with national education standards? State Rankings 2009 is CQ Press’s popular rankings reference book that makes it easy to compare states in education, health, crime, transportation, taxes, government finance, and so much more. State Rankings has become a favorite resource on reference shelves throughout the United States and around the world.

The editors have compiled useful statistics that would otherwise take an enormous amount of time to research. In over 550 user-friendly tables, State Rankings 2009 compares every state and Washington, DC in the following areas:

Population
Agriculture
Economy
Environment
Government Finance
Crime
Education
Geography
Social welfare
Defense
Health
Energy
Housing
And much more!

In this new edition the formula and methodology are discussed in a new narrative chapter allowing researchers to cite statistics with context. Academic and public libraries will find this title essential to their collections.

Reviews

"A standard statistical tool for city officials and planners and policy workers as well as students of comparative performance of state governments.... This work is recommended." - American Reference Books Annual

Acclaim for the previous edition:

“As the editors state, the mission of the work is to translate complicated and often convoluted statistics into meaningful, easy-to-understand state comparisons. This they have done in an admirable fashion.” - American Reference Books Annual

About the series:

"This series continues to provide a wealth of data from a wide variety of sources focused entirely on the individual states." - American Reference Books Annual

Bio(s)

Scott Morgan

Scott Morgan is an attorney who served as chief counsel to Sen. Robert Dole’s 1988 presidential campaign. Together with Kathleen O''''Leary Morgan, he has compiled state and city rankings books for almost two decades.

Kathleen O'Leary Morgan

Kathleen O’Leary Morgan holds a master’s degree in public administration and has served in a number of media and legislative liaison positions with the U.S. Department of Transportation, where she also served as deputy director of Congressional Affairs. Together with Scott Morgan, she has compiled state and city rankings books for almost two decades.

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