Mixed Blessings

Let’s hope they’re right. Polling conducted this month by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press finds 10 percent of adults expecting their financial situation will improve “a lot” over the course of the next year and 54 percent believing it will improve “some.” Just 5 percent think it will get “a lot worse,” while 13 percent think it’ll get “a little worse.” Few (12 percent) think their circumstances will “stay the same.”

Why don’t college students have the pallor one would expect in people who spend their days in the library stacks? They’re cheating.