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September 25, 2024
Disconnected: The Growing Class Divide in American Civic Life
Key Points College graduates report having greater access to community spaces than do Americans with a high school degree or less. More than one in five Americans have no access…
May 6, 2024
How States and Communities Can Strengthen Marriages
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 27, 2024
Narcan Babies
…to the danger. In New Mexico, legislators attempted to pass a bill classifying fentanyl exposure as child abuse. Though the bill received unanimous endorsement from the state’s Courts, Correction, and…
March 12, 2024
Family Dinners Offer a Silver Lining in a Bleak Social Capital Landscape
…not widen over time. Our colleague, Dan Cox, has surveyed American adults and asked them retrospectively whether they had “family meals everyday growing up.” He found that the share answering…
February 5, 2024
Why We All Rely On the Organized Kindness of Strangers
Our church caught fire [i] a few weeks ago. The pastor and a few other leaders had just gotten out of a Monday night meeting when they found the sanctuary…
September 27, 2023
The Good and Bad News About Boys and Men in Utah
Utah is doing exceptionally well on most metrics. The state is booming population-wise, with an almost 7 percent increase in population since 2018. Unemployment remains below the national average and the Beehive State’s economy…
September 21, 2023
How Health Privacy Laws Are Hurting College Students and Their Families
…children’s conditions. In 2019, Kathy Schussler and her husband, Jeffrey Schussler, sued Iowa State over their son Dane’s suicide. Dane had gone to seek counseling over a traumatic incident and…
September 17, 2023
Tracking ‘two-parent privilege’ in Utah
…percentage of married two-parent families is associated with a larger percentage of students graduating from high school in states across the union, according to research by Brad Wilcox at the University of Virginia,…
August 10, 2023
The Real Reason People Leave Religion
More than a decade ago, the Pew Research Center released a path-breaking study on people without religion: “Nones” on the Rise. At the time, I was in graduate school studying political science…
July 24, 2023
The Power of the Humble Pub
…percent) are on the fence about it. To address the dangerous levels of loneliness, the UK established a Minister of Loneliness. The trends all line up here: As pubs disappear and…