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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: 0.206s | source
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djoldman ◴[02 Sep 25 15:28 UTC] No.45104351[source]▶
Details on page 10 here:

https://prod-i.a.dj.com/public/resources/documents/WSJNORCJu...

Including previous values:

25% July 2025

29% July 2024

28% March 2023

27% May 2022

Interesting other measurement:

Neither agree nor disagree: 32% 24% 28% 27%

So... not really much change over the past 3 years.

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1. etskinner ◴[02 Sep 25 15:46 UTC] No.45104642[source]▶
The article may be referring to page 14, actually.

The question on page 14 is "Do you think the American Dream--that if you work hard you'll get ahead--still holds true, never held true, or once held true but does not anymore?

And the results are (from 2023 to 2025):

Still holds true: 36, 34, 31 (downward trend)

Never held true: 18, 17, 23 (upward trend)

Once held true but not anymore: 45, 49, 46 (mixed trend)