In the panel's primary focus on the measurement of poverty in the United States, we discuss the rationale for, and the measurement of, a concept of poverty based on the lack of family resources needed ...

The nation's infrastructure facilitates movement of people and goods, provides adequate safe water for drinking and other uses, provides energy where it is needed, removes wastes, and generally ...

Humans are animals that measure things. Call us Homo mensura. We have a compulsion to quantify, and for millennia we’ve been inventing new ways to go about it. For anything you can think of, there’s a ...