Poll: Californians Asked Almost The American Dream Enjoin It’S Dying

From Curbed, San Francisco, Aug 29, 2018:

Survey of to a greater extent than than 3,300 residents notice most Golden State denizens bring piddling religious belief inwards their ain prospects

On Tuesday, the Public Religion Research Institute—a Washington DC-based nonprofit—released the results of a the American dream.

The results were pretty grim statewide, amongst i exception: Those polled inwards the Bay Area tend to last much to a greater extent than optimistic well-nigh their chances inwards the Golden State compared to Californians inwards surrounding regions.

Some illustrative examples from the data:

• Californians don’t believed inwards the “American dream”: Asked whether they believed those who function difficult volition eventually larn ahead, a plurality 47 part of workers statewide said yes. However, unopen to other 43 part said that this was truthful inwards the past times exactly no longer the case. And 10 part are of the thought it was never truthful inwards the get-go place.
• Neither does the Bay Area: Despite the fact that Bay Area residents say they’re amend off financially than the residuum of the state, local figures are slightly worse for the American dream question: exclusively 45 part nonetheless believe inwards it, versus 44 part who say it’s come upwards too gone too xi part who believe it was a myth inwards the get-go place.
• Bay Area to a greater extent than probable to believe inwards the “California dream”: Asked whether it’s easier to larn ahead inwards California versus other states, exclusively sixteen part of California workers agreed. Fifty-five part said it’s harder here. In the Bay Area the release of those who say easier is slightly higher—18 percent—but then equally good is the release of those who telephone holler upwards it harder: 59 percent.
• Most Californians ready to enjoin others to “go east”: Overall, unopen to 64 part of those polled across the country would propose younger people to campaign their luck getting ahead inwards unopen to other state. The exclusively exception to this tendency was inwards the Bay Area, where 55 part advised people rest hither too hand California a shot....

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