Yesterday I wrote about Robert Putnam's research on how mobility (moving a lot) affects civic engagement. He concluded that high mobility tends to decrease participation in community. Well, if that's true, a blurb from the New York Times in the Star Tribune today was good news for civic engagement: "Americans Stayed Put Last Year." According to the report, "fewer Americans moved in 2008 than in any year since 1962."
"It does show that the U.S. population ... seems to have been stopped dead in its tracks," said William Frey, a demographer with the Brookings Institution.
The housing crisis and recession have changed how much we move. Maybe it will also change how much we volunteer.
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