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Americans Lose Faith That Hard Work Leads to Economic Gains, WSJ-NORC Poll Finds

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191 points impish9208 | 1 comments | 02 Sep 25 15:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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nonethewiser ◴[02 Sep 25 15:34 UTC] No.45104441[source]▶
The poll is more interesting than the article: https://prod-i.a.dj.com/public/resources/documents/WSJNORCJu...

37% of people in the survey are unemployed. That is very high. Not at all representative of the general population (4 to 5%).

69% live in a home they or someone in their household owns.

That sounds a lot like young adults yet to get off their feet.

More interesting things:

- opinion on economy and own financial health has improved over the past 3 years

- the opinion on the American dream is actually quite stable over the past several years. There is a slight negative trend. You could write the same article 3 years ago.

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1. chrisco255 ◴[02 Sep 25 15:40 UTC] No.45104548[source]▶
The poll is conducted on the internet. Busy people are less likely to fill out surveys and are more likely to believe that hard work leads to economic gains.