When asked to detail what would make a better life in three to five years, 60% of US adults said greater financial security
Americans may seem increasingly divided on beliefs and values, but in a new survey of more than 30,000 adults from across the country spanning generations and economic classes, a majority of Americans agree there’s a significant barrier to achieving a better life: the rising cost of living.
When asked to describe what a better life in three to five years would look like, 60% of Americans said they wanted greater financial security, according to a survey that was conducted by the McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility and the WK Kellogg Foundation in mid-April.
In interviews that accompanied the survey, respondents often defined financial security as being able to afford basic necessities without worry.
I spend quite a lot of time in the US
I’m there because I have to be
People are on edge. Everyone is only a tiny mishap from absolute ruin, and the kicker is that it’s not just the “poor”
The wealthy, the “successful”, they’re all a broken leg away from losing their job and being saddled with some insane burden that will quite literally ruin them
And that’s the people “on top”
It’s literally impossible for me to imagine what life is like for those who are for the thousands of bigoted, stupid, hateful and profoundly ignorant reasons are cast aside and ignored by the white cunts who don’t realise that they are next to fall, when just being white isn’t enough