Poll Shows Optimism and Pessimism Among Americans

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Poll Shows Optimism and Pessimism Among Americans

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Pew's Economic Mobility Project manager, Erin Currier, discusses the project's national public opinion poll fielded in March 2011 that assesses the public's perceptions of economic mobility and the American Dream as the nation emerges from the Great Recession.

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