What’s America Saying?

What is the highest level of education you have completed?

67.52% High School Degree or GED

16.55% 2 Year College Degree

7.85% 4 Year College Degree

8.08% Graduate Degree – 2 or 4 Year

What would the scholarship money be used for?

30.96% College, Undergrad or Graduate

19.43% Trade or Technical School

10.27% Job Retraining

11.63% GED Program

27.70% Something Else

Would you or a loved one be interested in a FREE scholarship to help pay for school or any job retraining?

14.13% Yes, for myself

9.48% Yes, for someone else

76.39% No, I’m not interested

A Weekly Newsletter on American Life

The Paradox of Choice in Modern American Life

by The American Survey Team | February 11, 2026 | Newsletter | 0 Comments

Choice is often treated as a defining feature of freedom. In American culture, more options are commonly equated with more autonomy, opportunity, and satisfaction. From consumer goods to career paths, choice is seen as an unquestioned good. Yet a growing body of...

How Social Media Rewired Status, Shame, and Belonging

by The American Survey Team | February 3, 2026 | Newsletter | 0 Comments

Social media platforms were initially framed as tools for connection—ways to maintain relationships, share information, and participate in public conversation. Over time, their role expanded. Social media now functions as a primary arena where status is displayed,...

The Politics of Nostalgia in a Country That Can’t Agree on Its Past

by The American Survey Team | January 27, 2026 | Newsletter | 0 Comments

Nostalgia is often dismissed as sentimentality—a longing for an idealized past that never truly existed. Yet in periods of rapid change, nostalgia takes on a different role. It becomes a way to make sense of uncertainty, offering continuity when the present feels...

America’s Crisis of Meaning Is Bigger Than Politics

by The American Survey Team | January 20, 2026 | Newsletter | 0 Comments

Much of America’s current unrest is explained through politics: polarization, elections, culture wars, and institutional conflict. These explanations are not wrong, but they may be incomplete. Beneath political disagreement lies a deeper issue—one that politics...

Why So Many Americans Feel Ruled but Not Represented

by The American Survey Team | January 13, 2026 | Newsletter | 0 Comments

American democracy is built on the principle of representation. Citizens elect officials to make decisions on their behalf, delegating authority while retaining ultimate sovereignty. Yet surveys consistently show that many Americans feel disconnected from this...

The New American Moral Divide Isn’t Left vs. Right

by The American Survey Team | January 6, 2026 | Newsletter | 0 Comments

American political conflict is often described as a clash between left and right, liberals and conservatives, progressives and traditionalists. While these labels capture some differences in policy preference, they increasingly fail to explain the deeper moral...

What the Decline of Churchgoing Reveals About American Community

by The American Survey Team | December 29, 2025 | Newsletter | 0 Comments

For much of American history, religious congregations served as central nodes of community life. They provided not only spiritual guidance, but social connection, mutual aid, and civic participation. Attendance was never universal, but it was common enough to function...

Why Economic Growth Hasn’t Made Americans Feel Secure

by The American Survey Team | December 22, 2025 | Newsletter | 0 Comments

By many conventional measures, the U.S. economy has grown substantially over the past several decades. GDP has increased, productivity has risen, and technological innovation has expanded consumer choice. Yet surveys consistently show that many Americans feel...

How Loneliness Became a National Condition

by The American Survey Team | December 14, 2025 | Newsletter | 0 Comments

Loneliness is often treated as a private problem—an individual emotional state shaped by personality, circumstance, or life stage. But over the past several decades, research suggests something broader is taking place. Across age groups, income levels, and regions,...

The End of the Shared American Story

by The American Survey Team | December 7, 2025 | Newsletter | 0 Comments

Every society relies on stories to explain who it is, where it came from, and what it owes its members. In the United States, these narratives have taken many forms—frontier expansion, democratic self-rule, upward mobility—but they shared a common function. They...

College Was Supposed to Unite Us. Instead, It Sorted Us.

by The American Survey Team | December 1, 2025 | Newsletter | 0 Comments

For much of the last century, higher education was seen as a unifying force in American life. Colleges promised not only economic mobility, but exposure to diverse ideas, backgrounds, and social experiences. Attending college was meant to broaden perspectives and...

What Polling Can’t Explain About America’s Culture War

by The American Survey Team | November 18, 2025 | Newsletter | 0 Comments

Public opinion polls are one of the primary tools Americans use to understand political conflict. Charts tracking approval ratings, partisan divides, and ideological shifts shape headlines and inform strategy. When it comes to the so-called culture war, polling often...

The Quiet Collapse of the Middle-Class Life Script

by The American Survey Team | November 11, 2025 | Newsletter | 0 Comments

For much of the 20th century, the American middle class was guided by a broadly shared life script. Finish school, find stable work, buy a home, raise a family, retire with dignity. While not universally accessible, this sequence functioned as a cultural north...

Why Americans Don’t Trust Institutions Anymore (and What They’ve Replaced Them With)

by The American Survey Team | November 3, 2025 | Newsletter | 0 Comments

Trust is a quiet foundation of democratic life. It allows citizens to accept outcomes they dislike, defer to expertise they do not fully understand, and cooperate with people they have never met. When trust erodes, politics becomes more fragile—not necessarily louder,...

The Myth of the Independent Voter—and Why It Still Shapes American Politics

by The American Survey Team | October 28, 2025 | Newsletter | 0 Comments

For decades, American politics has revolved around a familiar character: the independent voter. Candidates chase them, strategists invoke them, and journalists frame elections around their presumed preferences. Independents are often described as pragmatic, moderate,...

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