Survey: Millennials Love Big Government?
Elizabeth Nolan Brown|May. 20, 2014 12:09 pm
Millennial Vote/FacebookLast week Youth Engagement Fund and Project New America released a new survey on millennial ideology. Millennials—roughly defined as those aged 18 to 33—are my people. I tend to stick up for us. I tend to take heart in this generation’s support for marriage equality and ending the drug war, among other things…
But holy geez Gen Y, this is a poor showing. On measures from “creating jobs” to “making college affordable” to “protecting the rights of women,” millennials overwhelmingly said they favored greater government involvement. And when asked whether they would rather have government “off their backs” or “on their side,” 59 percent of millennials voted for friendly paternalism.
For the survey, Harstad Strategic Research polled more than 2,000 18- to 31-year-olds in March and April 2014. Of course, it should be noted that Youth Engagement Fund, Project New America, and Harstad are all progressive organizations. Maybe there’s some subtle linguistic bias driving these results?
https://reason.com/blog/2014/05/20/survey-millennials-love-big-government
