Discover how key quality of life factors have changed in your state. Featuring an entirely new set of data, State Trends 2008 delves into the areas of state of government spending, education outcomes, public health, corrections, energy and transportation.
Find out whether your state's highway fatality rate has increased or decreased in the past year. How has the state prisoner incarceration rate changed over the course of 20 years? Have students become more proficient in reading in the past decade? Find the answers to these and many other questions in this newly updated edition of State Trends.
State Specific Reports
State specific reports, "Perspectives," are also available. These comb bound quick reference guides provide data and ranking information for an individual state for each of the categories in State Trends 2008.