Boys & Girls Clubs Work to Expand

Forty­one percent of Spartanburg County fifth­graders are overweight or obese, according to recent data released by the Spartanburg Childhood Obesity Taskforce. Over the course of the 2012­2013 school year, task force members collaborated with staff in all seven Spartanburg County school districts to collect consistent body mass index data for 10,426 first­, third­, and fifth­graders.

Over the past few months, writers from Charles Murray to Timothy Noah have produced alarming work on the growing bifurcation of American society. Now the eminent Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam and his team are coming out with research that’s more horrifying.