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Efforts to Reconnect Americans Face Challenges in a Lonely Time
Small U.S. groups use local activities and community programs to combat loneliness, with 16% of adults feeling isolated, according to the Pew Research Center.
- In recent years, small organizations across the U.S. have worked to rebuild community connections through potluck dinners and formal programs, the Associated Press reports.
- Scholars and analysts say long-term declines in civic participation result from reduced memberships in civic, religious and fraternal groups, worsened by social media, polarization and the pandemic.
- About 16% of adults report persistent loneliness, including one-quarter of U.S. adults under 30, while about two in 10 have no close friends outside family, according to the report Disconnected and Gallup.
- Murthy's Together Project, supported by the Knight Foundation, aims to bolster grassroots connections, and U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy says he will continue visiting local groups.
- In 2023, the Surgeon General warned of an `epidemic` of loneliness, linking isolation to cardiovascular disease, dementia, and depression, which disproportionately harms lower-education, lower-income Americans.
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