US: Grading the States 2008 released

The Government Performance Project of the Pew Center on the States has released Grading the States 2008. This annual quality assessment is designed to reflect the performance of each state as a whole. It focuses on four areas the project considers key to a state's performing well -  money, people, infrastructure and information. Three states - Utah, Virginia and Washington - each earned an A- while the average grade awarded was a B-. See also "The Mandate to Measure" in Governing magazine.