But while the city has got richer, its social indicators have gone into reverse.
He appealed, unsuccessfully, to leave the social indicators in place.
The arts serve as social, political and economic indicators that can help call into being an era.
The 1990's have seen remarkable progress on some key social indicators.
More to the public interest were the latest statements on the social indicators.
"It's been a bit over a year now, and the social indicators are not changing; if anything, they're worse."
Other social indicators, including the rate of imprisonment, have been increasing.
Two, it helps us work together and develop joint social indicators, for the first time.
Since the early 1970's, bad news - especially in social indicators - became so common that the question was simply whom or what to blame.
But most of the public conversation is about numbers: statistics, trend lines, social indicators.