The Next Generation
The future is rosy for today’s youth.
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Despite general pessimism about the economy, two-thirds of Americans say it is “very” or “somewhat” likely that today’s youth will have a better life than their parents, a recent Gallup poll reports. When the Roper Organization asked the same question in 1983, 54 percent of Americans gave that response. Source: The Roper Organization, 1983; The Gallup Organization, 2008.