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Episode 9: Robert Putnam

Morality in the 21st Century

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The Opportunity's Available to Poor Kids Now

There's always been a gap between opportunities for rich and poor kids. But in the last 20 or 30 years, things have gotten better and better for children coming from rich backgrounds. And that parallel, growing divide means that the opportunity's available to poor kids now. The book consists of a group, a set of charts that look like a sideways v. That is, the people coming froma there's always been something of a gap between the opportunities for rich cook kids and opportunities for poor kids. What you've found, as far as i understand it, is that the top third is pulling away from the rest, and the bottom third, that's right, is really deprived in that sense

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