Australia’s highly educated Gen-Z, born after 1995, is set to be the first cohort worse off than its parents as insecure work, housing shortages and global warming derail their prospects, economist
Youth unemployment remains more than double the national rate, while rising student debt, fewer full-time jobs and soaring rental housing costs leave young people precariously placed, Pennington, a senior adviser to the Labor government, says in her new book “Gen F’d?”
Penington says the book is a call to arms to help young Australians reclaim their future. She reckons they have shown “incredible resilience” in …