2025美国国家现状全景剖析报告

Board of Directors(and Authors of this Report) Douglas N. Harris(Board Chair), Tulane University, Brookings InstitutionBradley Birzer, Hillsdale College, Free Enterprise InstituteCarol Graham, Brookings InstitutionMona Hanna, Michigan State UniversityFrederick M. Hess, American Enterprise InstituteGary Hoover, Tulane University, Murphy InstituteAriel Kalil, University of ChicagoAnna Lembke, Stanford UniversityJoseph Romm, University of PennsylvaniaPatrick Sharkey, Princeton UniversityHeidi Shierholz. Economic Policy InstituteKiron Skinner, Stanford University’s Hoover Institution,Pepperdine University’s School of Public PolicyMichael Strain, American Enterprise InstituteScott Winship, American Enterprise Institute Funders Tulane University and the Murphy Institute(Note: All board members are unpaid volunteers.) Table of Contents Executive Summary .......................................................................................................................( Pg 04 Section 01 - Children and Families .................................................................................( Pg 27Section 02 - Citizenship and Democracy .......................................................................( Pg 36Section 03 - Civil Liberties ..............................................................................................( Pg 42Section 04 - Economy ......................................................................................................( Pg 47Section 05 - Education ....................................................................................................( Pg 54Section 06 - Environment ...............................................................................................( Pg 64Section 07 - Inequality ....................................................................................................( Pg 70Section 08 - Life Satisfaction .........................................................................................( Pg 77Section 09 - Mental Health .............................................................................................( Pg 83Section 10 - National Security .........................................................................................( Pg 89Section 11 - Physical Health .............................................................................................( Pg 93Section 12 - Social Capital ...............................................................................................( Pg 97Section 13 - Trust .............................................................................................................( Pg 102Section 14 - Violence ........................................................................................................( Pg 113Section 15 - Work and Labor Force .................................................................................( Pg 118 Board Vote and Public Opinion Poll: Methods and Results ........................................................( Pg 128 Executive Summary What is the state of the nation? This is a fundamental question. Increasingly, we see evidence, frompolling data to our own dinner tables, that the answer is “not very strong.” Many feel that things arenot going well in the United States. A gnawing sense of angst seems to have descended upon us. Weseem polarized and distrustful, worried and pessimistic. Where exactly are we going wrong? Just as importantly, what might we be overlooking—whatis actually going right? And can we agree on any of the answers? These are the questions that wesought to answer with the State of the Nation Project. The wide-ranging authors of this report—theboard of the project—have come to agreement on 15 topics and 37 measures that we believe capturecrucial elements of the state of the nation. When these measures are going in the right direction, itis something to celebrate. But when they are headed in the wrong direction, or when we fare poorlyrelative to other countries, we believe it should raise alarm bells about where we are or where we areheaded. Taken together, these measures paint a useful and compelling picture of our country thatshould help guide our future. This is America’s progress report. It was not obvious at the beginning of the project how much agreement might be possible.The entire project was an experiment. Could liberals agree with conservatives, Democrats withRepublicans, on anything meaningful? Could we agree on anything other than “extreme” measureslike murder and suicide, which are obviously concerning? Could we keep our discussions fromturning into the tugs-of-war we see nightly on cable news, which typically go nowhere productive?When we first started describing the State of the Nation Project to others, many said the answer tothese questions was a firm “no.” The country is too divided, we were told, to come to agreement onanything important. But we could agree—and we did. As a group, we are leaders and scho