A new survey gauging American values shows that the number of US citizens who consider religion to be very important has dropped to fewer than 40% in the last 25 years; the number of those who consider money to be “very important” has increased substantially, and is larger than the percentage of those who place a high value on faith, Axios reports. The survey was carried out by The Wall Street Journal together with the NORC at the University of Chicago, who polled 1,500 US adults this month.
In what Axio journalist Mike Allen described as a “tectonic shift” in American values, the WSJ/NORC survey found that, since 1998, the number of Americans who consider religion to be “very important” has dropped from 62% to 39%. Of these, just 31% of adults under the age of 30 said religion is […]
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