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...fact, the poll did show that where there has been an uptick is in the most - kind of the local volunteering, right around your home with your local school...
...changed since then. The Kennedy Serve America Act has been passed, which is fantastic. And we've done this enormous national poll about national service, and one of the things that we discovered, and other polls have shown this, too, is that, in fact, volunteering is down as a result of the recession, and civic participation is down. And when we did that last year it was a kind of great moment for us, and since then, the economy has gone down. I'm wondering what you make of that and what you think the significance of that...
...think that's not only good for the society as a whole - it makes us stronger - but it's good for individuals because it breaks people out of their isolation. In fact, one of the arguments I've made for why people should volunteer now, even though times are tough, is nothing is better to break you out of a funk or your own anxieties than helping somebody else. And I think that we all have a tendency when times are tough to turn inward, but in some ways that can be more isolating. And I think being out there...
...Well, in fact, speaking of de Tocqueville, there was that Putnam study from a few years ago about bowling alone. I remember somebody rebutted that by saying, people aren't bowling alone, they're playing soccer in groups - you're not looking at the right kind of examples...
...fact, in the poll - speaking of millennials - about a third of Americans - you know, I have to think of some interesting names for them - "the Responsibles" basically say that they've changed their lives and they've made essentially a kind of new social contract. They're buying things that are greener; they're buying things that have a sense of social responsibility. And this group is about 70 or 80 million Americans. They're younger, they're better educated, they're more diverse...