that Gen Z adults were the most likely to experience heightened difficulty in making major life decisions, partly because the pandemic had created more uncertainty about what the next few months of their lives could look like.that members of Gen Z were the likeliest to say that the pandemic had hurt their mental health, or report an unwanted change in their body weight.The pandemic also appears to have hit Gen Z job seekers hardest. .
, as the pandemic’s economic devastation was spreading across the country, a third of job hunters between ages 16 and 19 were unemployed. That was more than twice the national unemployment rate.Though youth employment has improved since then, the level of employment for Americans between 16 and 24 years old still remains below that of 2019,Workers in the Gen Z age bracket outside the United States report similar difficulties.
“In fact, though the number of young unemployed has remained essentially unchanged between 2019 and 2020 worldwide, this is only because many young people without a job stopped looking for one or have delayed their entry into the [labor] market,”