What We’re Getting Wrong About Millennials With Cathy Cohen




Big Brains show

Summary: Every election year, poll after poll tries to predict where millennials stand politically. But Prof. Cathy Cohen of the University of Chicago says some of our assumptions about what issues matter to young people are all wrong. Cohen’s innovative survey of millennials, GenForward, is a first of its kind. By oversampling young people of color, they investigate differences in responses by race and ethnicity. (Music used in this episode: Balti by Blue Dot Sessions.)