California progress report reveals Asian, white success and Latino leap forward
The average Californian has done better than the average American. California women are doing better than California men overall. And only Latinos and Asians, among all ethnic groups, have improved in well-being in the last decade. These were some of the findings of the report “A Portrait of California 2021-2022” published by Measure of America, a Social Science Research Council program.
The “Portrait of California” report, the third in a series, provides a snapshot of how Californians are faring by looking at government data on health, access to education and living standards.
Kristen Lewis, the report’s author, described the project as a way to highlight who has access to opportunities and where livelihood gaps exist among different segments of the population.
The report uses the American Human Development Index (HDI), a concept developed by the late economist Mahbub ul Haq, along with economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, who argued that human development must be a measure of how people improved their lives. The HDI looks at “the real freedom ordinary people have to decide who to be, what to do and how to live,” summarized Lewis.
California as a whole has improved 15% over the last decade, which means that the lives of people in the state have improved significantly. However, this progress has been wildly uneven, and there are considerable gaps in development among different racial and ethnic groups today, just as they were when the first iteration of the report was published in 2000.
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