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August 25, 2015

“Our Kids” Author Robert Putnam Headlines UAlbany School of Public Health Forum on Health Disparities

The University at Albany School of Public Health will host Robert D. Putnam, the Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University and author of Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis. This event will take place on Wednesday, September 16 at 5 p.m. at the University at Albany School of Public Health’s George Education Center Auditorium, located at One University Place in Rensselaer.  The forum will address the role of the growing income inequality gap in the U.S. today.

The University at Albany School of Public Health has initiated an “All School Read” program, which invites students, faculty, staff and community members to select and read an important book covering issues relevant for those preparing for careers in public health. The first book chosen is Putnam’s Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, a groundbreaking examination of the growing inequality gap in the United States. The book details how children and grandchildren today have had harder lives amid diminishing prospects compared with earlier generations of Americans.