“They’re going to suffer unemployment and underemployment at higher levels than the general population more likely, just because they’re starting their career and don’t have a lot of experience,” she said.Īlawi Masud, a senior government and politics major, is already working two jobs to help provide for his family. With nearly 30 million people filing for unemployment in the last month, Rouse said this generation is facing a depressed job market. But a look back at recent history can offer some answers, she said.įor one, she said, Gen Zers will likely face a “similar, if probably not worse” financial trajectory to those who graduated during the Great Recession. Right now, it’s still too early to identify precisely how the pandemic will affect Generation Z, said Rouse, who studies the motivations and political behaviors of those in this generation and millennials.
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