2024 Election Vibe Check: Interviews with the Next Generation of Leaders in American Politics To better explore the state of youth voices in American politics as we enter the 2024 Election Year, BIFYA is publishing a series of interviews with members of GenZ who are running for office across the country. In an era where […]

2024 Election Vibe Check: Interviews with the Next Generation of Leaders in American Politics To better explore the state of youth voices in American politics as we enter the 2024 Election Year, BIFYA is publishing a series of interviews with members of GenZ who are running for office across the country. In an era where […]

California Sun Podcast, February 2024 The Berkeley Institute for Young Americans, part of the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, examines the evolving generational dynamics of millennials and Gen Z. The institute serves as a hub for exploring the aspirations and challenges of young people, offering unique perspectives on their impact in the […]

Assessing Changes in the Ideological Identity of Young Women and Men using the CCES A recent analysis by the Financial Times’ John Burn-Murdoch shows how the political ideology of young women and young men have increasingly diverged in recent years in South Korea, the U.S., Germany, and the UK. In his accompanying FT column, Burn-Murdoch […]

How new forms of risk are shaping the youngest generations Working Paper Series forthcoming March 2024 In the transition from the industrial to the knowledge economy, profound changes to the nature of work, the family, and the social safety net have taken root across U.S. society, giving rise to a complex set of risks unevenly […]

Berkeley News, February 2024 In October 2020, just a few weeks before the U.S. presidential election, global pop hyper-star Taylor Swift issued a brief, carefully worded statement endorsing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. The Democratic nominees, Swift said, recognized “that people of color deserve to feel safe and represented, women deserve the right to choose […]

On the blog this month we’re looking at trends in generational homeownership rates, by the age of each generation, with generation defined based on the Pew Research Center’s definition. The figure below specifically measures homeownership at the person level, which breaks from the conventional household measures of homeownership by including all members of the household, […]

2024 Election Vibe Check: Interviews with the Next Generation of Leaders in American Politics To better explore the state of youth voices in American politics as we enter the 2024 Election Year, BIFYA is publishing a series of interviews with members of GenZ who are running for office across the country. In an era where […]

2024 Election Vibe Check: Interviews with the Next Generation of Leaders in American Politics To better explore the state of youth voices in American politics as we enter the 2024 Election Year, BIFYA is publishing a series of interviews with members of GenZ who are running for office across the country. In an era where […]

Younger generations worldwide are facing new and unprecedented risks. And while it’s become commonplace for critics to point the finger back at them, blaming younger generations for their own problems – Young people are unmotivated! They’re entitled and narcissistic! – these narratives are a harmful distraction from the global generational crisis hiding in plain sight: […]