Not Your Grandson’s Gen Z: 5 Surprising Findings From America’s Top Poll Of Young Americans

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Not Your Grandson’s Gen Z: 5 Surprising Findings From America’s Top Poll Of Young Americans

Ben Zeisloft

The conventional wisdom says that young people in the United States are more progressive than their parents and grandparents — and that is likely still true on many issues. But America’s younger cohorts have a few viewpoints that may take some by surprise.

In a national poll of 18 to 29-year-olds from the Institute of Politics at Harvard University’s Kennedy School, young people still show a strong degree of support for left-wing policies and positions. Yet they also buck expectations on a wide variety of social and economic issues — everything from education to President Joe Biden.

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