September 26, 2014
In This Aug. 29, 2014, photo Erin Nwachukwu right, goes over class schedules with her friends, Khalidah Ahmad, left, and Yosef Smith, center, during orientation day at Lindblom Math and Science Academy in Chicago. A new study has found that, while Americans are mistrustful of each other and institutions -- from government to corporations and the media -- young people are among the least likely age group to have confidence in those institutions, especially since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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Study: Millennials Less Trusting than Gen X Was
They're often pegged as the civic-minded, do-gooding generation. But while they're still optimistic about their own personal prospects, a new study finds that today's youth are often more skeptical of the country's institutions than the young generations that preceded them.