Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg

Jul 10, 2024 | usnews.com | Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg |Jessica Rosenworcel |Edward J. Markey

With less than four months to go before the 2024 presidential election, young voters are at a crossroads. On the one hand, they are interested in the election and intend to participate. According to a new U.S. News-Generation Lab poll of young adults aged 18-34, 73% have given some or a lot of thought to the upcoming election. Sixty-one percent believe it will be one of the most important elections in history – and half say they will “definitely” vote.

Nov 7, 2023 | bostonglobe.com | Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg |Peter Levine

Seemingly every week, a new poll reaffirms the dismal state of US politics and low levels of trust in the political system. Recently, Pew Research Center reported that just 4 percent of Americans surveyed say that the US political system is working very well. In a Tufts Tisch College poll, more than half of young Americans — ages 18 to 29 — surveyed think the country is headed in the wrong direction.

Oct 6, 2023 | brookings.edu | Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg

Every two years, political campaigns, organizations, and pundits all ask the same question: Will young people turn out to vote? In recent cycles, that answer has been an emphatic yes: Youth ages 18-29, long considered unreliable voters, have turned out at historically high rates. Between the 2014 and 2018 midterms, and between the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, youth voter turnout increased by double digits.