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The Politics Of Loneliness

FiveThirtyEight Politics

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Relationships Are What Get You Through the Hard Times

In your study, do you see a change in how people are relating to each other and how much time they're spending in these kinds of close relationships? Yes. I mean, so this is the American perspective survey, which is from the American Enterprise Institute and then the other source is the census. They were a group of Harvard College sophomores, a very privileged group and underprivileged group of inner city boys from Boston's poorest neighborhoods and most troubled families. So all those people, privileged and under resourced folks, all of them were concerned about what's my purpose in life? Who do I want to invest in? This was the generation that lived through the depression. This was

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