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One in five working Americans believes their job is meaningless Via YouGov: In the quest for life’s meaning, some people might be looking to their career for answers while others don’t feel their job has a significant impact on the world. In a recent YouGov poll of more than 9,000 working Americans, only just over half (55%) feel that their job is making a meaningful contribution to the world, while 22% say […]

Poll: What does it mean to be patriotic in 2021? Via YouGov: Coming up on the celebration of Independence Day, most Americans describe themselves as patriotic. In the latest Economist/YouGov poll, nearly eight in ten Americans say they consider themselves patriotic (78%), with more than a third of Americans (39%) saying they are “very patriotic.” Each year, Republicans are more likely than Democrats to describe themselves that way: this year, […]

One-quarter of Americans would eat a cicada-based food Via YouGov: This summer, billions of cicadas are expected to emerge across the United States. This variation of the hard-shell bug only comes once every seventeen years, sparking delight for chefs across the country who are inspired to create cicada cuisine. Despite the relatively rare opportunity to snack on the critters, though, most Americans (58%) are not interested in eating them. A […]

YouGov Poll: Half of Americans expect to get richer Via YouGov: John Steinbeck famously articulated the idea of the “temporarily embarrassed capitalist”; a person who, whatever their current economic status, considered themselves a future millionaire-in-waiting. Data from YouGov Direct suggests that people do, on the whole, think they’re going to get wealthier over the course of their lives: half of Americans (48%) say they’re going to accumulate more capital, while […]