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UK poll: Work and money worry young people more than culture wars or climate
Class, education and gender found to influence difference in views but anxiety about finances was a common theme
Young people are more worried about their finances, work pressures and job insecurity than social media, the climate crisis and culture war debates, research shows. The poll, carried out in partnership with Focaldata and supplemented by in-depth interviews, found the top three “biggest contributors to you feeling nervous, anxious or on edge” were financial worries (37%), work pressures (23%) and job insecurity or unemployment (20%), far ahead of social media (14%) and climate change (10%). Gen Z is a “highly heterodox group”, the report concludes, whose views on politics, democracy and their own future vary hugely depending on their socioeconomic backgrounds.
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