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Tax Policy Should Prioritize Shoring Up the Family
During the Biden years, tax policy related to the family revolved around the child tax…
Report
How States and Communities Can Strengthen Marriages
Family is the greatest source of social capital, providing the setting in which people grow,…
Op-Ed
Family Dinners Offer a Silver Lining in a Bleak Social Capital Landscape
Across a variety of indicators, social capital in America is deteriorating. But one trend appears…
Blog Post
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…
Report
Family’s Place in America’s Social Fabric
The family is arguably the most basic building block of community life.[i] But even as…
Report
Measuring the Geography of Social Networks
Social interactions shape social and economic activity across a range of domains, from migration and…
Report
The Ultimate Social Capital: A Story to Save the Union
The American Republic is on the brink; a revived civic national story can help us…
Blog Post
Measuring Social Capital: Can We Tell If Some Places Are Richer in Social Capital Than Others?
The concept of social capital has been inconsistently defined and described.[1]That should not be surprising,…
Blog Post
What the Rise in Dog Attacks Signals About the State of America’s Social Capital
If you have ever had the unfortunate experience of being attacked or bitten by a…
Blog Post
Local News and Social Capital
Joseph Schumpeter famously observed that capitalism unleashed “creative destruction.”[i] If that is so for American journalism,…
Report
The Mainline Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Social Capitalism
When Alexis de Tocqueville penned his seminal Democracy in America lauding the strength of American…
Blog Post
Social Capital: What Is It?
Words and phrases, as they say, can do a lot of work. Sometimes, evocative terms…