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Poll finds worried Americans predict nation in downhill slide
Ask people to imagine American life in 2050, and you?ll get some dreary visions.
Whether they foresee runaway technology or runaway government, rampant poverty or vanishing morality, a majority of Americans predict a future worse than today.
Whites are particularly gloomy: Only 1 in 6 expects better times over the next four decades. Also notably pessimistic are middle-age and older people, those who earn midlevel ...
Associated Press
Sep. 30, 2018 8:17 pm
Ask people to imagine American life in 2050, and you?ll get some dreary visions.
Whether they foresee runaway technology or runaway government, rampant poverty or vanishing morality, a majority of Americans predict a future worse than today.
Whites are particularly gloomy: Only 1 in 6 expects better times over the next four decades. Also notably pessimistic are middle-age and older people, those who earn midlevel incomes and Protestants, a new national poll finds.
Even groups with comparatively sunny outlooks ? racial and ethnic minorities, the young and the nonreligious ? are much more likely to say things will be the same or get worse than to predict a brighter future.
