The other ledger for Nebraska: 287,240 people facing hunger, 29 of the state's rural hospitals screening vulnerable to closure, $18.8 billion of water-system need, and a public-power grid racing data-centre load growth — in the only all-public-power state in the nation. Every figure is sourced, dated, and labeled — counted, modeled, or assessed.
How to read this page: the class chip on every measure is the honesty label. Counted = an inspection or enumeration record. Modeled = a study's projection or risk score — printed with the modeler's name. Assessed = a structured survey of required investment — needs as documented, not measurements of decay. Figures keep the form their source gave them; years are printed on every measure.
Click any category to expand it — every measure with its figure, what it means in plain language, and its source.
Nine categories, 19 measures, each drawn from the standard source for its category and labelled counted, modeled, or assessed. Nebraska's sharpest contrasts: the mildest roads-and-bridges picture on this site so far (15% of major roads poor or mediocre, 7% of bridges poor — both well below national shares) sits beside its most alarming hospital screen, where 29 of about 71 rural hospitals model as vulnerable to closure. The state also carries $18.8 billion of assessed water-system need and a food-insecurity rate of 14.5% — 287,240 people.
Screens are printed separately, never blended. The hospital category pairs Sheps Center's hard count of actual closures (2 since 2005) with the Chartis model's vulnerability screen (29 hospitals) as two distinct instruments — Nebraska's light closure history does not cancel its forward risk, and neither number is averaged into the other. The same discipline holds for dams: 160 high-hazard-potential dams (a downstream-consequence class, not a condition grade) and 426 watershed dams past their 50-year design life (an age measure) are printed as what they are, and NO poor-condition dam count is printed because no verifiable statewide figure exists. For food, no verifiable statewide USDA Atlas low-income/low-access resident count could be confirmed, so none is printed — the modeled Feeding America rate stands alone, labelled modeled.
Geography and forecasts are labelled where they are not statewide or not measured. The traffic figures describe the Omaha, NE–IA metropolitan area only — a bi-state metro including Council Bluffs, Iowa — because no statewide Nebraska congestion total exists. The power figures are utility forecasts and plans (data centres' projected 41% share of OPPD sales by 2035; 3,200 MW of planned additions), printed as forecasts in the nation's only all-public-power state. Broadband prints the approved deployment figures — 14,032 eligible locations, $44.5M of federal deployment funding — rather than the headline $405M allocation, most of which awaits federal decisions.