Details

Subject(s)

• Economic indicators—United States—States [Browse]
• U.S. states—Population—Statistics [Browse]
• U.S. states—Statistics—Charts, diagrams, etc [Browse]
• Social indicators—United States—States [Browse]
• Lifestyles—United States—States [Browse]
• Economics [Browse]
• Lifestyles [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Graphs [Browse]
• Statistics [Browse]

Medium/​Support

• illustration http://rdaregistry.info/termList/IllusContent/1014 rdaill
• polychrome http://rdaregistry.info/termList/RDAColourContent/1003 rdacc
• map http://rdaregistry.info/termList/IllusContent/1008 rdaill

Summary note

A compendium of facts about the states, presented graphically and covering a wide array of topics including demographic, economic, environmental, health, and crime variables. Hundreds of attributes are compared side by side, from life expectancy to murder rates, fourth-grade math proficiency scores to the number of food stamp recipients, and illicit drug use to the rate of firearm background checks per state.

Notes

Chiefly bar graphs.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Demographics
• Health
• Lifestyle
• Education
• Crime
• Environment
• Resources
• Personal finances
• State economy
• Federal influence
• Appendices. Map of the United States
• The top and bottom ranked states.

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Other title(s)

Ranking America's 50 states

ISBN

• 159888669X ((pbk.))
• 9781598886696 ((pbk.))

OCLC

852829919

RCP

H - S

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