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There are striking divisions in a new CNN survey, but they are not necessarily the Americans supporters of the Americans: the divisions are more gray than red against blue.
The first has to do with the American dream, which a growing number of Americans feel is out of reach. Most, 54%, always agreed with the idea that “people who want to move forward can do so if they are ready to work hard”, in the new survey, led by SSRS.
What is remarkable is that when CNN asked the same question in 2016, more than two -thirds of the respondents, 67%, agreed with this optimistic idea.
Looking at the results of the new age survey, young Americans are less optimistic than they can “get there”.
About half, 51% of under 45s, estimated that “hard work and determination are not a guarantee of success for most people”, against 41% of these 45 and over.
There is probably a certain supporter behind these figures, because young Americans tend to be more liberal, despite the breakthroughs that President Donald Trump and the Republicans made with young people.
But the age gap exists, to a more modest extent, even within the Democratic Party. More than two thirds of the Democrats and the self -employed Democrats under the age of 45 say that hard work and determination are not a guarantee of success. A smaller part, 62% of older Democrats and democratic self -employed feel this.
Read the full report of Ariel Edwards-Levy de CNN.
A second question of the survey asks if the government should do more or if it is already trying to do too much.
A majority, 58%, say that the government should do more to solve the country’s problems, against only 51% when CNN asked the question almost two years ago.
More young people, 63% of those under the age of 45, said they wanted more government, compared to 54% of these 45 and over.
The government is probably doing more for the elderly: it helps to provide health care in the form of health insurance and retirement services in the form of social security for a large part of older Americans. At the same time, national ball debt means that the future of these programs is on an unsustainable path for young Americans.
Asked what they feel the party represents their point of view on the economy, three quarters of over 45 have chosen Democrats (32%) or Republicans (42%), leaving a little older Americans who said that none of the parties represented them on the economy.
A larger part of people under the age of 45, 38%said they did not feel represented by one or the other of the parties on the economy.
Another story of CNN published on Monday could help explain part of the discomfort felt by young Americans.
This comes from the CNN report on the “No rental, no fire»Economy by Matt Egan:
… Even if the overall labor market seems relatively healthyEconomists say that it is the worst market for new colleges graduates since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Recent graduates note that it takes a lot of time to be hired, leaving them unemployed and have stained with student debt for a long period of frustration.
For the first time since the holding of files on the subject began in 1980, the unemployment rate for recent graduates (those from 22 to 27 years old holders of a baccalaureate or more) is always higher than the national unemployment rate, according to Oxford Economics.
The unemployment rate for people between 20 and 24 is double the national average, and there is evidence that companies adjust the way they make entry -level hires when they adopt the progress of AI.
All this could indicate a separate lack of optimism among young Americans.