America’s Youth is Turning the Political and Cultural Landscape On Its Head

Carl Gabriel
5 min readJun 18, 2018
79% of millennials say immigrants “do more to strengthen than burden the country.” (Abel Uribe / Chicago Tribune)

In the United States levels of inequality are rising, politics are becoming more polarized, only one third of Americans trust the government to “do what is right,” and only a quarter of Americans say they have confidence in elected officials. If the 2016 presidential election taught us anything it’s that Americans have serious trust issues with government…

Carl Gabriel

NYC poet & cultural worker. Follow me on Instagram @carlgabrielnyc