The Moral Decay Index https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Contact Disclaimer Is Church Attendance Really Declining? What the Data Actually Shows The American Marriage Crisis: Why Fewer People Are Getting Married — And Why It Matters 40% of American Children Are Now Born Outside of Marriage — Here’s What the Research Says 107,000 Dead in One Year: Understanding America’s Drug Overdose Crisis Only 32% of Americans Trust the Media: Inside the Collapse of Institutional Credibility Homicide Rates Surged 30% in American Cities: Understanding the 2020–2022 Crime Wave Americans Are Bowling Alone More Than Ever: The Collapse of Social Capital What Is the Moral Decay Index? A Complete Guide to How We Track Social Health in America The Violent Crime Spike: What the Data Shows and What It Means The Moral Decay Index About The Moral Decay Index Articles The Death of the Third Place: Where America Used to Gather Falling for a Chatbot: Inside America’s Growing Romance with AI The Wealth Gap Nobody in Washington Wants to Close Is College Still Worth It? Confidence in Higher Education Erodes The Fall of Organized Labor in America The Jobs America Is Quietly Losing to AI Vaping Nation: The Youth Nicotine Epidemic America Keeps Declaring Over Seeing Isn’t Believing Anymore: Deepfakes and the Collapse of Media Trust Who’s Going to Fix It? America’s Vanishing Skilled Trades Workforce The Erosion of Public Health Trust in America Watched: The Normalization of Surveillance in American Life News Deserts: What America Loses When Local Journalism Dies No One to Call: The Collapse of Adult Friendship in America Nobody’s Volunteering Anymore: The Quiet Collapse of Civic Life in America Burned Out and Checked Out: American Workers Are Quietly Giving Up Food Insecurity in America: The Hunger Crisis Hiding in Plain Sight Sick and Broke: How Medical Debt Is Bankrupting American Families The Childcare Crisis: Why Raising a Family Became a Luxury Healthcare Deserts: When Rural America Loses Its Hospital Priced Out: The Slow Death of the American Homeownership Dream Violent Crime Spike in Major Cities Raises Stability Concerns Prison Recidivism: Why America’s Justice System Keeps Failing 18.6 Million Children Without Both Parents: The Single-Parent Crisis Nobody Names Is Church Attendance Really Declining? When the Protectors Become the Predators The War In Iran When Leadership Loses the People THE COLLAPSE OF RELIGIOUS IDENTITY IN YOUNG AMERICANS America’s Gang Violence Epidemic: The Crisis Cities Don’t Want to Name The Dehumanization of Political Opponents in Modern Leadership Elder Abuse in America: The Hidden Crisis in Plain Sight The Student Loan Debt Crisis: A Generation Mortgaged Before It Begins Youth Delinquency: The Early Warning Signal Society Keeps Ignoring Sports Betting’s Explosive Growth and the Addiction Crisis Nobody Planned For America’s High School Dropout Crisis: The Pipeline Nobody Is Fixing The Leadership Vacuum: Why America Can’t Find Leaders It Trusts