The Moral Decay Index https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Domestic Violence: Safety, Responsibility, and Careful Evidence Human Trafficking: Recognize Exploitation Without Repeating Myths Elder Abuse: Dignity Requires a Way to Be Heard Financial Fraud: Reported Losses and the Duty Not to Deceive Antisemitism: Take the Harm Seriously and Keep the Measures Clear Retail Theft: Protect Workers Without Inflating the Evidence Violent Crime Fell in 2025. Accurate Reporting Still Matters. Gang Violence: Ask Which Intervention Works, for Whom, and Where The Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting: Evidence Before Interpretation Youth Justice: Separate Placement Counts from Claims About Crime Mass Incarceration: Count Carefully, Then Demand Accountability Prison Recidivism: Define the Outcome Before Judging the System First-Time Homebuyers: What a Median Age of 40 Really Shows Food Insecurity: Measure the Need Without Confusing It with a Single Experience Medical Debt: Different Measures, One Demand for Clear Accountability Childcare Costs: A National Average Is Only the Start of the Family Budget Child Abuse and Neglect: America’s Failure to Protect Its Most Vulnerable Youth Disengagement: The Generation That Dropped Out of Society Young Adult Suicide: The Invisible Epidemic Destroying a Generation America’s Literacy Crisis: When a Nation Stops Being Able to Read Rural Hospital Access: Distinguish Closure, Conversion, and Financial Risk News Deserts: Check Who Is Watching Local Decisions The Decline of Charitable Giving: When Americans Stop Helping Each Other Adult Friendship: What the 2021 Survey Reveals—and What It Does Not Social Media’s Quiet War on Youth Mental Health and Moral Formation Volunteering Rebounded. Civic Institutions Still Need Reliable Support. The Abortion Rate Rise: What the Numbers Reveal About American Society The National Debt: America’s Slow-Motion Economic Suicide Veteran Suicide: The Debt America Refuses to Pay The Collapse of Civic Engagement in America The Collapse of Social Trust in America Road Rage and Traffic Violence: America’s Most Normalized Danger Sports Betting’s Explosive Growth and the Addiction Crisis Nobody Planned For Employee Engagement: A Management Signal, Not a Verdict on Workers Who Will Fix It? Build a Credible Route into the Skilled Trades Screen Addiction and Childhood: The Developmental Emergency Nobody Declared Is College Worth It? Separate Public Confidence from the Individual Decision Corporate Ethics Collapse: When Business Stopped Caring About Integrity Organized Labor: A Smaller Share, Not a Vanished Workforce Political Polarization: How America Became Two Countries That Hate Each Other Why the Decline in Church Attendance Is About More Than Religion Academic Dishonesty: How America Stopped Caring About Truth in Education The Homelessness Crisis: What Compassion Without Accountability Has Built The Student Loan Debt Crisis: A Generation Mortgaged Before It Begins The Collapse of Media Trust in America America’s Trust in Government: The Collapse Nobody Wants to Admit The Erosion of Public Health Trust in America The Wealth Gap Nobody in Washington Wants to Close Deepfakes and Trust: Verify the Claim Without Giving Up on Evidence The Moral Decay Index