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Teachers Must Look in the Mirror

April 5, 2015

New York Daily News | By Thomas Kane



Author: U.S. children have little chance of American Dream

April 9, 2015

CBS News Live | With guest Robert Putnam



Spotlight Webcast: Robert Putnam, "Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis" [Video]

April 10, 2015

Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity | Interview with Robert Putnam



Harvard Professor/Author Robert Putnam

April 20, 2015

Tavis Smiley | Guest: Robert Putnam



The Loneliness of America's Poor Kids

April 22, 2015

Zócalo Public Square | Guest: Robert Putnam



Improving Opportunity for Black Men

April 29, 2015

American Enterprise Institute | Panel with Orlando Patterson



The Man Who Foresaw Baltimore

May 1, 2015

Politico | By Bruce Western



Can Big Data Transform Social Justice?

May 1, 2015

CNN Opinion | By Phillip Atiba Goff, Visiting Scholar, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy



Black economics medalist on 'acting white': 'I didn't want to be singled out as anything'

April 30, 2015

Washington Post | Interview with Roland Fryer (See also: accompanying article)



President joins Poverty Summit

May 12, 2015

President Barack Obama joined a discussion on overcoming poverty in the US with Robert Putnam, Arthur Brooks (AEI), and moderated by E.J. Dionne.  In his remarks, President Obama also highlighted William Julius Wilson's earlier work in the The Truly Disadvantaged (33:32 mark).  View on C-Span ► 
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Mary Jo Bane took part in a separate panel that addressed how religious and national leaders might help make overcoming poverty "a clear moral imperative and an urgent national priority." These events were part of a two-day Catholic-Evangelical Leadership Summit on Overcoming Poverty, held at Georgetown University. Read more ►

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