What makes SUSAs website unique?
The State of the USA (SUSA) will seek to address the void between online searches and professional-quality research. Search engines offer rapid access to relevant sources, but cannot yet guide users effectively past the first results. First-class research can produce high-quality answers to sophisticated questions; but it can take weeks, months or years to complete. SUSA’s website will provide the best available information to help its users answer their questions in minutes or hours—and at no cost. SUSA will focus on displaying reliable, objective data to measure conditions in the United States; and it will seek to support, rather than compete with, existing information providers. It will address relevant issues, but not set goals. It will assemble information, not collect it. It will display data, but not interpret them. And it will concentrate on quantitative information, with supporting explanations and context that will make the measures easy to use and understand. SUSA’s website
