… Young people are committed to improving the world but do not see politics as the most effective mechanism through which to realize those aspirations.
A survey of college freshmen conducted annually by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies found today’s students don’t pay much attention to politics. Just 35 percent feel it is important to keep up with politics. In the late ’60s, 57 percent were paying that level of attention. [cont.]
Mark Mellman (Mellman Group), The Hill