Whenever minimum wage increases are proposed on the state or federal level, business groups tend to fight them tooth and nail. But actual opposition may not be as united as the groups’ rhetoric might make it appear, according to internal research conducted by a leading consultant for state chambers of […] Read more »
Why millennials may not produce many more Mark Zuckerbergs
Millennials have been heralded as the uniquely diverse, highly educated, politically independent social media marvels. But a new poll finds many of them would also just like a good job at an established business with some vacation time. The survey conducted by the Harvard University’s Institute of Politics in collaboration […] Read more »
Does the American Dream mean anything anymore? More young people are saying no.
Do you think about your life in terms of the American Dream? A white picket fence? The 2.5 children? The kind of upward mobility that isn’t ostentatious—never!—but still pays for nice enough vacations and new iPhones? For a growing number of young people, the answer is no. In 1986, 67% […] Read more »
Fear is making the GOP’s job easier
Politics is not only about competing views on issues. It is also, and often most importantly, about which problems come to the forefront in the public conversation and in the minds of citizens and voters. … The importance of who gets to set the agenda was brought home by a […] Read more »
On the left and right, voters express anxiety over future
One year before the presidential election, a pervasive disquiet has shaped voter attitudes, with a majority of Republicans pessimistic about moral values and the increasing diversity of the country’s population, and Democrats uneasy about an economy they see as tilted toward the rich. … Those concerns — detailed in a […] Read more »
Millennials not so different when it comes to work
Conventional wisdom holds that the millennial generation, influenced by the 9/11 attacks, burdened with student debt and reared in a world of high-speed mobile devices, is a unique group of young people. But a special CNBC All-America Economic Survey focusing on millennials finds that while the generation has some unique […] Read more »