Just 9 percent of young Americans say the U.S. is “moving in the right direction,” survey finds

Only 9% of young Americans believe the US is heading in the right direction, according to a new poll.

The search, released Thursday from the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics, found that less than 10% of voters ages 18 to 29 said the country is generally heading in the right direction. Approximately 58 percent of respondents said the country is heading in the wrong direction.

However, more than half of young Americans indicated in the poll that they would vote for President Biden in the November elections. Additionally, 53 percent of respondents said they will definitely vote in the presidential election overall.

Biden has been under pressure to improve his polling among young voters after a NPR/NewsHour/Marist Research This month, former President Trump rose 2 points above him among millennial and Gen Z Americans. The president pushed for student debt relief to woo young Americans, who were a critical voting bloc for him in the 2020 race. .

In the new poll, the economy was what 27 percent of young Americans said was the national issue that worried them most.

In other issues that young voters indicated they care about, 45 percent of registered young Americans said they are following news about the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

Additionally, 45 percent said they did not know when asked whether they believe Israel’s response so far has been justified. Thirty-two percent said they believe the response after the Oct. 7 attacks was not justified, according to the survey.

On immigration issues, 53 percent of young Americans said they believe there is a crisis at the U.S. southern border. However, 50 percent agreed with the idea that immigrants improve U.S. culture, the survey found.

The survey was conducted between March 14 and 21 and included 2,010 young Americans. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.02 percentage points.