Katherine Hamilton
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654 appearances
14 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2024
last heard Jan 2025
Katherine Hamilton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But one major reason is changing institutions like college and work where Americans have traditionally made a lot of their friends in the past.
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The pandemic had a big impact on both of those institutions.
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So work from home has increased a lot for folks who used to go in the office.
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They may not be going in as much or at all.
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And college similarly has changed a lot during the pandemic.
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I spoke to a few college students who talked about how isolating it is now to be on campus and how they felt like
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Growing up, they thought college would be a great opportunity to meet all these people.
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But in reality, they felt like in dining halls, they had to sit by themselves and everybody is really closed off post-pandemic.
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You definitely hear people sort of changing their attitudes about friends and folks that they're meeting in colleges and at work.
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Also neighbors, too.
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I spoke to an older gentleman who lives in Kansas City, and he said that he's lived in apartments for most of his life, and he used to be really close with his neighbors.
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He would go ballroom dancing with them, and now he's very cordial with them.
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He feels like especially friendly.
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And since folks are looking at their phone more and since the pandemic, he just isn't as close with his neighbors.
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Yeah, that's what he said, too.
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You know, you step on their feet and then it breaks the barrier.
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Before the pandemic, a lot of people were going to these networking events, obviously, to help their professional lives.
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But I spoke to one woman who works for a nonprofit in Detroit, and she helps host a lot of these professional networking events.
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And since the pandemic, she said she's noticed a shift where a lot of the folks attending, and they're paying around $30 to participate, they're actually looking to make friends rather than to job hunt or make professional connections.
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A lot of it is sort of anecdotal evidence that we can pull from, but people in general feel a little bit more isolated.
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