While the economy has struggled the last few years, most Americans feel that financially things now are better than they were in our country a generation ago. More specifically, according to Gallup’s latest research 69% of Americans believe they “are better off financially than their parents were when they were the same age.”
So What?
While the majority of those polled in all age groups and at all income levels believed they are better off than their parents, the percentage holding the favorable view increases with age and with income.
Questions:
- Do you believe you are better off now than your parents were financially when they were your age?
- Are you surprised how many (more than 2 in 3) believe that they are better off than were their parents?
- Do you think 69% of people are actually better off than their parents or is the number artificially high (many people have inflated their own financial standing or in some sense devalued that of their parents) or low (many people who feel worse off are actually not)?
- How can local congregations effectively leverage this positive economic outlook as a tool (one of many) to help people assess their current economic position more favorably? more biblically?