#  Robert Putnam: Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis 

 



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 **February 23, 2015** 

 12:00PM - 01:45PM EST 

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 **Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room**  



 

 



 

**Robert D. Putnam,** *Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University.*

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Robert Putnam's talk will draw from his forthcoming book, **[Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis](http://robertdputnam.com/)**, scheduled for release by Simon and Schuster on or around March 10, 2015:The American Dream of equal opportunity is threatened by a growing gap between kids from the upper third of the social hierarchy and their peers from the lower third.

Over the last several decades young people from college-educated homes and those from high-school educated homes have diverged on many factors predicting life success: Two-parent homes, parental investments of time and money, test scores, physical health, participation in extracurricular and religious activities, school quality, college entrance and completion.

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Kids from low-income homes of all races are increasingly adrift from family, school, church, and community institutions, in a perfect storm with multiple causes: economic insecurity and stress, the collapse of the working class family, and the unraveling fabric in low-income neighborhoods.

This problem poses serious economic, social, political and moral challenges.



 

 



 

 See also:- [ Spring 2015 ](/seminar-archive/spring-2015)
 
 

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