As 2019 approaches, most Americans are feeling pretty good about the future.
A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll found that 60 percent of Americans are optimistic about the world in 2019, compared with just 37 percent whose outlook is less rosy. (That leaves 3 percent of the country as merely ambivalent, if you’re counting.)
It’s a measurable jump in optimism from 2011, when just 54 percent of the country felt similarly about the coming year.
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