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EUR NEWS SPECIAL: Black males have nation’s lowest human development index.
*According to a just-released study, the American Human Development Report, African American males have the lowest ranking on the report’s “human development index.”
(For more on what "human growth development" means, scroll down.)
The index is based on U.S. government data concerning the health, education and income of American citizens and is considered “a single measure of well-being for all Americans.”
The report found that Asian males in the United States have the highest human development score and they were expected to live 14 years longer on average than Black males who had the lowest score on the human development index.
The study was financed Oxfam America, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Conrad Hilton Foundation.
Black males were found to currently have a shorter life expectancy than the average white American had in the 1970s.
Overall, the report ranked America 12th on a worldwide scale for the human development of its citizens. For example, U.S. citizens ranked 42nd in the world for life expectancy even though this nation spends more per person on health care than any other nation.
Asians had a median income of $31,518. Whites placed second with $30,485 and Blacks placed third with $23.025. The healthiest people in America were Asian woman while Black males had the lowest health index.
The report was published by Columbia University Press and its full title is “The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009. For more detailed information, interested persons can log onto www.measureofamerica.org [ Source: Taylor Media Services: www.freewebs.com/blacknewsjournal/]
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From Wikipedia: The Human Development Index (HDI) is an index combining normalized measures of life expectancy, literacy, educational attainment, and GDP per capita for countries worldwide. It is claimed as a standard means of measuring human development — a concept that, according to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), refers to the process of widening the options of persons, giving them greater opportunities for education, health care, income, employment, etc. The basic use of HDI is to rank countries by level of "human development", which usually also implies to determine whether a country is a developed, developing, or underdeveloped country. (For more, click here.)
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