Nobody’s Volunteering Anymore: The Quiet Collapse of Civic Life in America
🤝 Signals ← Back to All Articles In 2019, roughly 30 percent of Americans formally volunteered — a coat drive, […]
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No One to Call: The Collapse of Adult Friendship in America
🤝 Signals ← Back to All Articles In 1990, 3% of American men said they had no close friends. Today
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News Deserts: What America Loses When Local Journalism Dies
📰 Institutions ← Back to All Articles America has lost more than a third of its newspapers since 2005 —
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Healthcare Deserts: When Rural America Loses Its Hospital
🏥 Public Health ← Back to All Articles Somewhere in rural America, a hospital closes or stops taking new patients
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The Childcare Crisis: Why Raising a Family Became a Luxury
👶 Family ← Back to All Articles The national average price of full-time child care hit $13,184 a year in
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Sick and Broke: How Medical Debt Is Bankrupting American Families
🏥 Public Health ← Back to All Articles More than 100 million American adults — roughly one in three —
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Food Insecurity in America: The Hunger Crisis Hiding in Plain Sight
🍽️ Public Health ← Back to All Articles In its most recent report, the USDA found that 13.7 percent of
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Priced Out: The Slow Death of the American Homeownership Dream
🏠 Housing ← Back to All Articles In 2025, the typical first-time homebuyer in America turned 40 before closing on
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How American Media Lost the Country — and What We Lost With It
📰 Institutional Decay ← Back to All Articles Only 14% of Americans have a “great deal” or “quite a lot”
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Loneliness Epidemic
🫂 Social Decay The Loneliness Epidemic: America’s Invisible Public Health Crisis The Moral Decay Index · May 3, 2026 ·
Institutions
Abuse of Power: How Donald Trump Became the Most Legally Challenged President in American History
⚖️ Institutional Decay Abuse of Power: How Donald Trump Became the Most Legally Challenged President in American History The Moral
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The Trust Deficit: How Social Cohesion Is Unraveling
📱 Culture & Media ← Back to All Articles Social trust — the degree to which people trust strangers, neighbors,
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Civic Freefall: Two-Thirds of Americans Fail the Citizenship Test
🏛 Civic Life ← Back to All Articles Two-thirds of Americans would fail the civics test required to become a
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Only 32%: Why Americans Have Stopped Trusting the Media
📱 Culture & Media ← Back to All Articles Only 32% of Americans say they trust the mass media to
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107,000 Dead: The Overdose Crisis No One Is Stopping
🏥 Public Health ← Back to All Articles 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in a single recent year. That
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The Empty Pew: How America Lost Its Faith
⛪ Faith & Religion ← Back to All Articles America’s churches are emptying. Not slowly, not subtly — but at
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The Abuse of Power Crisis: When Institutions Betray the Public Trust
⚖ Civic Life ← Back to All Articles The Moral Decay Index tracks institutional trust, civic accountability, and the health
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America’s STD Epidemic: The Sexual Health Crisis Nobody Is Talking About
🏥 Public Health ← Back to All Articles The CDC reports more than 2.5 million combined new cases of chlamydia,
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The Abortion Rate Rise: What the Numbers Reveal About American Society
💔 Marriage & Family ← Back to All Articles In 2025, approximately 1,126,000 abortions were performed in the United States
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Road Rage and Traffic Violence: America’s Most Normalized Danger
🔒 Crime & Safety ← Back to All Articles A new AAA Foundation study found that 96% of American drivers