America the Downbeat #
April 9th, 2008 | In Worth Seeing
In the category of “Things that make you go ‘Whoa!’” is the top chart attached to this study by the Pew Research Center. The text analysis (emphasis mine):
Americans feel stuck in their tracks. A majority of survey respondents say that in the past five years, they either haven’t moved forward in life (25%) or have fallen backwards (31%). This is the most downbeat short-term assessment of personal progress in nearly half a century of polling by the Pew Research Center and the Gallup organization.
(via Matt Yglesias, who make this important point: “the betters still outnumber the worses”)