Discover how key quality of life factors have changed in your state. Featuring an entirely new set of data, State Trends, 4th Edition 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.

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Index

Sample Table #1: Per Pupil Public School Expenditures: 1986 to 2005

Sample Table #2: Private Health Insurance Coverage: 1989 to 2005

"An excellent addition to Morgan Quitno's state statistical publications. Highly recommended for all types of libraries." - Choice

"This book is a boon. It helps even lay readers to gain an understanding of the changes taking place at the state level in the most important sectors of national life." - American Reference Books Annual