Measures and Grades

The State Asset Development Report Card is a benchmarking tool, whereby each state is evaluated relative to the performance of the other 49 states. Information has been collected on each of the 50 states in three main areas: asset outcomes, asset policy, and tax policy and accountability. Of these, the first two indexes are analyzed comparatively across states and grades are given. The third is provided for informational purposes only; states are not compared against one another.

The framework for the Report Card was developed after an extensive literature review and based on the advice of an advisory committee that included state policy experts, researchers, community development practitioners, budget and tax experts, and funders.