Gavin Newsom: “Gen Z is poised to do much worse than their parents'…”

“Because I think what you're saying needs to be said. Because there were these trend lines that predate all of this for decades and decades. And we have the first generation, this Gen Z is poised to do much worse than their parents' generation. This is the first generation in our lifetime. My lifetime, certainly, but literally in American history where that would be the case. And so this is code Red.” (28:17–28:24)

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