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Gavin Newsom: “If you're 30 years old, you're the first generation in the…”

Featuring: Gavin Newsom, Democratic | Governor of California

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Published | Video Starts at 53:39

And I want to just pull one more contemporary thread in this conversation, but it's important just to remind everybody that the trend lines as it relates to young folks. I mean when we say Code Red, it's legitimately Code red. If you're 30 years old, you're the first generation in the history of this country not doing better than your parents. You're 100%. If you look at college graduation, it's going to be 2 to 1 at the UCs and CSUs here in the next five years. Women, which is fantastic. (53:39–53:47)

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Asserts that the current generation of 30-year-olds is the first in U.S. history not to surpass their parents economically.

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