Wednesday, January 7, 2015
On a more optimistic note, an Associated Press-GfK poll reveals that a rising number of Americans under age 30 say that citizens have “a very important obligation” to volunteer – in marked contrast to their perceptions of other civic duties such as voting and jury service. As reported in The New York Times, volunteering was the only civic obligation that was rated as highly by millennials as by older adults. This may be due in part to decades of building infrastructure to support volunteering as part of school and work, including national days of service on Martin Luther King Day and 9/11.