and this is a professor and at harvard and now i'm robert putnam and the thesis the book is people are turning away from community activities. and so they stopped joining the bowling. they've stopped drawing in the junior, they've stopped joining the board education, they've stopped voting. i found a correlation. i'm jumping around a lot about a correlation between. the degree of absorption, celebrity have and converse of how much do they are active politically. and it turns out. the more that i care about celebrities, the less likely they are to vote. and this is this is what the what academic researchers helped me understand. but i go back to putnam. so he's talking about why did this happen and he doesn't really know he blames television. but then you get into the problem of and this part came out i think originally by 1996 and then he's done a edition about two years ago with a no preference and so on. but, but he blames but the issue of correlation and causation is not really resolved. so doesn't know what causes what and and in my mind and that's still sort of a problem but in my

it is about isolation and loss of community in the united states and we are going to feature robert putnam the author of bowling alone and our kids and our kids in a major dialogue. you have been following the terrible situation in nicaragua with the jesuits, the university and their home and we are going to have a dialogue on november 14 on the witness of the jesuits in the church under this kind of pressure. we have others coming, keep your eye open for that. i want to thank my colleagues, kim daniels, anna gordon, kristin and others for making all of this possible. and thank you to all of you for joining us and join me one more time in thanking mark who is spreading the gospel on msnbc. sister anita, lauren, and our new professor at georgetown. thank him for a wonderful evening. [applause]

. ♪ ♪ >>> 23 years ago, political scientist robert putnam wrote a book called "bowling alone."his has happened in the age of the internet and social media, which enable us to communicate with thousands, even millions of people, at a time. it has produced a baffling paradox, a technology that draws us closer together, even as increasingly is used to drive us apart. there is nothing new, of course, about spreading rumors and half-truths and outright lies about those we don't like. what we have never seen before is how anyone with access to an iphone can undermine reality, replacing truth with lies, and spreading them around the world at the speed of light. what we're coming to learn, of course, is that far from eliminating loneliness, being in touch with everybody instantly has only appeared to heighten our sense of isolation. think about that for a moment as we reflect on a few scenes from colorado at the san juan national forest. where else? along the continental divide. >>> i'm ted koppel:"face the nation" is coming up. please join us when our trumpet sounds again next "sunday

church or live in small families or no families at all, there is that connection to community that robert putnam road is beautifully about in bowling land. this has increased over time. not being connected to a community is another way of being lonely for people. that is why i speculate that maybe this kind of attachment or nurture is like a muscle and the less it is exercised in one sphere the less it is exercised in others because it is striking we see these simultaneous dis-attachments. host: cornelius from alexander, louisiana. good afternoon. caller: good afternoon, peter and mary. i want to western everybody a happy labor day tomorrow. this is constitutional month and patriot day on september 11. so, we need to celebrate all of that. i'm for patriotism. i want to talk to you first, peter, then ms. mary. i found out what year that book feels 2008 abraham bolden echo of dealey plazament just got his card from president biden so he would be a great guest. he tried to prevent president kennedy's assassination. host: he is referencing an older program when he called in. go ahead. caller: my que

roberts knodell is the director of the missouri department of social services. ms. kristi putnam is a secretary of the arkansas department of human services and doctor aisha nyandoro is the ceo of supreme court opportunities in jackson, mississippi. welcome to you all. mr. carter i will never recognize you for five minutes to deliver your opening statement. >> chairman lahood, ranking member davis and members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify a potential reforms to the tanf program specifically, and on a broader statement in general. my name is clarence carter and i currently serve as commissioner of the tennessee department of human services in the administration of governor building. tendency of my last stop in a 32 year career in the administration of public safety net programs and agencies at the federal, state and local levels of government. during that career i've had the blessing and good fortune of serving two presidents, four governors and the mayor in this my life purpose and passion. my career predates the welfare reform of 1996. i harken ba

robert o'dell is the auditor of the department of social services. mr. carter putnam is the secretary of the department of labor and the ceo of springboard of opportunities in jackson mississippi is misses alicia jackson. mr. carter, i will recognize you deliver the opening statement. >> members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify on potential reforms. carter and i currently serve as commissioner of the tennessee department of human services in the administration of governor building. tendency of my last stop in a 32 year career in the administration of public safety net programs and agencies at the federal, state and local levels of government. during that career i've had the blessing and good fortune of serving two presidents, four governors and the mayor in this my life purpose and passion. my career predates the welfare the federal, state and refoloca levels. four governors. my life's purpose and passion. my career predates 1996. i hearken back to the excitement and anticipation. at that time, i was serving as virginia's commissioner of d