Hispanics more likely than U.S. public to believe in the American dream % who say Can most people who want to get ahead make it if they're willing to work hard, or are hard work and determination get no guarantee of success? Hard work and determination Compared to your parents when they were the age you are now, do you think
Hispanics are significantly more likely than the general U.S. public to believe in core parts of the American dream – that hard work will pay off and that each successive generation is better off than the one before it. Yet many Hispanics see the American dream as hard to reach, and belief in it declines as immigrant roots grow distant, according to newly released results from a Pew Research Center 2016 survey of Hispanic adults.
More than three-quarters of Hispanics (77%) said at the time that most people can get ahead with hard work, a higher share than among the U.S. public (62%) in 2016. For Hispanics, similar shares expected their standard of living to be better than that of their parents (75%) and expected their children to be better off than themselves (72%). Among the U.S. public, by contrast, just 56% expected to be better off than their parents, and 46% expected their children to have a better standard of living than they did.
Hispanics more likely than U.S. public to believe in the  | American dream  | % who say  | Can most people who want to get ahead make it if they're willing to work hard, or  | are hard work and determination get no guarantee of success?  | Hard work and determination  | Most can get ahead  | with hard work  | no guarantee of success  | 21  | All Hispanics  | 77  | Total U.S. 36  | 62  | Compared to your parents when they were the age you are now, do you think  | your own standard your of living now is than Much/ theirs age was?  | Much/  | Muchy  | Somewhat better  | Somewhat worse  | All Hispanics  | 12  | 75  | Total U.S  | 17  | 56  | When your children are at the age you are now, do you think their standard of  | living When will your be children than are yours at the is age now? you  | Much/  | Muchy  | Somewhat worse  | Somewhat better  | 13  | 72  | All Hispanics  | Total U.S  | 24  | 46  | Note: "About the same Don't know" and "Refused" responses not 23-Sept shown.  | Source: public, For Hispanics, National Survey of Latinos, conducted Aug 23-Sept 21 2016; for  | general Source: public, For Hispanics, Pew Research National Center Survey surveys, of Latinos, March conducted 17-26 and Aug May 23-Sept 25-June 21 29. 2016; 2016 for  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 