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May 6, 2024

How States and Communities Can Strengthen MarriagesĀ 

Family is the greatest source of social capital, providing the setting in which people grow, develop, and anchor their lives. Stable and healthy marriages are at the foundation of strong…

March 12, 2024

Family Dinners Offer a Silver Lining in a Bleak Social Capital Landscape

…the 8-point drop Cox finds between the two generations. It’s possible that, since the Millennials are looking further back in time than the Gen Zers in Cox’s 2021 survey, they…

July 12, 2023

Local News and Social Capital

Joseph Schumpeter famously observed that capitalism unleashed “creative destruction.”[i] If that is so for American journalism, just such a wave has, without doubt, been destroying local newspapers. What’s not yet clear…

May 3, 2023

The Mainline Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Social Capitalism

…and areas with many mainliners the best. Sociologists have observed these trends in prior work, including our colleague, W. Bradford Wilcox. Wilcox argues that mainline adherents tend to “talk left…