Millennials are disillusioned about the American dream, don’t trust the government and don’t think much of the current presidential candidates. They also want more boots on the ground to fight Islamic State… but they want other Americans to serve.
Americans ages 18 to 29 ‒ nicknamed the millennial generation ‒ account for 23 percent of the US population, or 73 million people. As such, the Harvard Institute of Politics (IOP) has undertaken the task of polling millennials twice a year on a vast swath of topics, from the political to the military, from the economic to the social.