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By Robert D. Putnam and Richard V. Reeves
The authors are social theorists who have long studied the roots and consequences of inequality.
In the early years of the 20th century, America had a “boy problem.” Boys on the street, making trouble. Boys becoming truants. Boys getting caught up in crime. The problem spread across the United States alongside the disruptions of technological change, immigration and growing socioeconomic inequality.








