Kids' Future Looking Good

Check out the results of a recent Gallup survey which finds Americans are more optimistic than they've been in ten years.

About six in 10 Americans say it is very or somewhat likely that today's young people will have a better life than their parents did. The latest reading marks continued improvement since the low of 44% in 2011 but is still not back to the level of 66% measured in February 2008.

Optimism fell during the 2007-2009 recession and ensuing periods of high unemployment, hitting a low in 2011.

The latest rise in overall optimism about children's chances to surpass their parents' success is largely attributable to a 29-percentage-point surge in positivity among Republicans and Republican leaners (to 70%) as Barack Obama's term ended and Donald Trump took office.

Manufacturing employment is up, unemployment and food stamps are down, and it took just under a year to destroy ISIS as a quasi-nation, if not as a movement. You'd have to be a Scrooge (or a Democrat) not to see those as indicators of America being made great again, and doggone quickly too.