A politically progressive generation

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Unlike millennials, Generation Z benefited from a strong economy and relatively low unemployment in the United States. But the pandemic has upended the country’s social, economic and political landscape, and young people are now navigating uncertain waters.

According to a Pew Research Center survey , in March 2020, half of 18-23 year-olds (the "oldest" members of Generation Z) reported that a member of their household had lost their job or experienced a drop in pay due to the coronavirus crisis. This figure is higher than among Millennials, where 40% of individuals reported such events (36% among Gen Xers and 25% among Baby Boomers). Young people are particularly vulnerable to job loss , a fact already established before the Covid-19 crisis.


Millennials and Gen Zers seem at first glance to agree vnpay database on social and political issues . A Pew Research Center poll conducted in the fall of 2018 (more than a year before the Covid-19 pandemic) among Americans aged 13 and older indicated that both generations were rather progressive and trusted the administrative apparatus to govern the country ( 7 out of 10 Gen Zers believe in the ability of governments to solve problems) , seeing the increase in ethnic diversity as a good thing for their country, and judging the United States less as a superior nation than before.


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Gen Zers and Millennials are more likely than their elders to recognize human responsibility for global warming , and are more sensitive to the persistence of racism in the United States (2/3 of Gen Zers and Millennials, compared to 50% of Gen Xers and Boomers).