© 2026 All Rights reserved WUSF
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
Thanks to you, WUSF is here — delivering fact-based news and stories that reflect our community.⁠ Your support powers everything we do.

Community Alienation Solution

Host Bob Edwards talks with Harvard Professor Robert Putnam and Bush advisor Stephen Goldsmith about a new study which looks at the causes and some solutions to community alienation. The report is being released today by the Saguaro Seminar. Goldsmith and Putnam agree the report contains ways citizens and the government can work together to create a stronger sense of community. (7:03)To read the Better Together report go to www.bettertogether.org.

Copyright 2000 NPR

Our daily newsletter, delivered first thing weekdays, keeps you connected to your community with news, culture, national NPR headlines, and more.