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...things that came up during this poll, and the story now is going to kind of reflect this idea, is that while volunteering is down, people have changed the way they are consuming. For example, in the past year, record numbers of people bought a green product. Record numbers of people bought a product from a company that shows social responsibility whose values they like...
...fact, in the poll - speaking of millennials - about a third of Americans - you know, I have to think of some interesting names for them - "the Responsibles" basically say that they've changed their lives and they've made essentially a kind of new social contract. They're buying things that are greener; they're buying things that have a sense of social responsibility. And this group is about 70 or 80 million Americans. They're younger, they're better educated, they're more diverse...
...Well, in fact, the working title of the poll is "The Responsibility Revolution," that people are having the sense across all different parts of society...
...Speaking of that day, one of the things that, in our poll, that had enormous resonance - and I think more than 80 percent of people across all of these categories supported - was the idea of a year of national service for young people, either post-high school, between high school and college, or sometime during high school that would either be civilian service or military service in exchange for an educational grant or scholarship. Now, they didn't want government to make it mandatory; they wanted it to be voluntary. But I'm wondering, how do you feel about that...
...According to a new TIME poll, more than 6 in 10 Americans have bought organic products since January. Lots of us have bought an energy-efficient lightbulb too. And it's not just the nature of the product but also its provenance that's prompting us to buy. Of the 1,003 adults we polled this summer, 82% said they have consciously supported local or neighborhood businesses this year. Nearly 40% said they purchased a product in 2009 because they liked the social or political values of the company that produced it. That's evidence of a changing mind...