Parents, Young Adult Children and the Transition to Adulthood
Most U.S. young adults are at least mostly financially independent and happy with their parents’ involvement in their lives. Parent-child relationships are mostly strong.
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Most U.S. young adults are at least mostly financially independent and happy with their parents’ involvement in their lives. Parent-child relationships are mostly strong.
Young workers express general contentment with many aspects of work; personal connections like relationships with co-workers stand out.
Additionally, about half of lower-income parents (52%) say they have not had enough money for food or their rent or mortgage.
Most workers are highly satisfied with their relationship with their co-workers and manager, but relatively few feel the same about their pay or opportunities for promotion.
Workers who quit a job in 2021 say low pay (63%), no opportunities for advancement (63%) and feeling disrespected at work (57%) were reasons why.
49% of Americans say the availability of affordable housing in their local community is a major problem, up 10 points from early 2018.
Nearly half of U.S. adults say the pandemic has driven people in their community apart. Many see a long road to recovery: About one-in-five say life in their community will never get back to the way it was before COVID-19.
The biggest takeaway may be the extent to which the decidedly nonpartisan virus met with an increasingly partisan response.
About half of U.S. adults who are currently unemployed and are looking for a job are pessimistic about their prospects for future employment.
Distress levels changed little overall from March to April, but this concealed considerable change at the individual level over this period.
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