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Where have all the volunteers gone in America
Sociologist Robert Putnam documents a broad decline in organized participation across churches unions PTA groups and civic clubs from 1960s to 1990s. Declines span bowling leagues women's and men’s organizations and college and high school associations while education rates rise yet memberships shrink. Possible causes include family breakdown labor force participation mobility and economic changes with more centralized shopping and media reducing communal spaces. Readers are invited to share ideas to The Preston Connection in Rapid City South Dakota.
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