Jul 21, 2026 · 28 min · 10 segments
Stories of Impact brings back some of our favorite conversations this season. In our last episode, we heard about the positive effects of coming together and sharing a meal. But for millions of…
Emiliana Simon-ThomasGuest
Tavia GilbertHost
While the Pew Research Center reports that a small minority of Americans, just 8%, say they have no friends, the Kaiser Family Foundation says that 22% of American adults report feeling lonely some of the time or all of the time.
If 20 million of us have no friends, and more than 50 million of us feel lonely so often, and all of us have experienced loneliness in some seasons of our lives, is America experiencing a loneliness epidemic? In his 2023 report, Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation, our Surgeon General, Dr.
Loneliness and disconnection have consequences not only for individual health, but for the health of the nation.
While the Pew Research Center reports that a small minority of Americans, just 8%, say they have no friends, the Kaiser Family Foundation says that 22% of American adults report feeling lonely some of the time or all of the time.
If 20 million of us have no friends, and more than 50 million of us feel lonely so often, and all of us have experienced loneliness in some seasons of our lives, is America experiencing a loneliness epidemic? In his 2023 report, Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation, our Surgeon General, Dr.
Loneliness and disconnection have consequences not only for individual health, but for the health of the nation.
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