Harvard University
Professor of Public Policy at Harvard; author of Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community and Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
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Robert Putnam
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FROM Robert Putnam
To the Point
American Inequality: A Children's Story The widening gap between America’s haves and have-nots is usually expressed with hard data on the declining wages and incomes of working adults. Sociologist Robert Putnam takes a different approach — using personal stories to show how poor children lose the opportunity to achieve the American Dream.
To the Point
September 11, Five Years Later The attack on Pearl Harbor unified an American generation that went on to win World War II. Their descendents still share the memories today. It would not be until September 11, 2001 that the United States would again be so dramatically attacked within its own borders. Just as they had 60 years before, Americans felt a deep sense of unity.
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