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Spot the bad news — children in America

Posted by Jon Sanders at 10:10 AM

Last year I wrote, "Optimists can find the silver lining in the dark clouds; their opposites work in the media and academe." Here's a recent example:

"If you took away the huge declines in crime, violence, and risky behaviors since the early 1990s, the picture for America's children would be bleak," said Kenneth Land, a sociologist at Duke University who developed the report.

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