Springtide Research Institute was recently featured in an article by Deseret News. You can see an excerpt of this article in part below, but we encourage you to visit their site to read the piece in its entirety.

Springtide Research Institute just released its 2024 Survey of Young People and Civic Life, which sampled 6,669 young people between the ages of 13 and 25 residing in the U.S. We hope and are actually confident that these younger Americans can and will make their voices heard in the coming years. They have a notably healthy approach toward civic life, socio-community health and managing and engaging with differences.

Over two thirds of younger Americans (68%) believe that adults have done a poor job handling political issues in the U.S., and significant numbers report that when adults talk to them about politics, the adults can be engaging and informative, but also aggressive and close-minded. As for the salience of politics in their lives, younger Americans — a plurality of 46% — report that politics is not at all important in their lives or that politics is among the least important things in in their lives. Just 19% claim that politics is among the most important or the most important thing in their lives. This bodes well for the future with so many young people grounding their identity and finding meaning and purpose outside of politics.

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