Expiration Dates for Different Pandemic Relief Programs

KQED Political Breakdown, April 2024 As part of KQED’s Youth Takeover, we hear from young voters about the issues they care about most ahead of a presidential election. From the war...

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...

Support for this project was provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation. Summary One of the primary...

Support for this project was provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation. Summary To better understand the...

Student debt levels have been rapidly increasing over the last several decades and in 2021, the national student loan debt surpassed $1.7 trillion. In light of this trend and with...

We analyzed data from the latest statewide survey from the Public Policy Institute for California (PPIC). In a question that asked whether you’d “rather pay higher taxes and have a...

This month marks the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic. We took a look at unemployment and long-term unemployment by age to see how the economic changes brought on by...

As policymakers consider the best path forward, we are publishing an interactive calculator to model potential policy designs for national relief payments in real-time. We hope that this will help...

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, young adults once again are facing the highest unemployment rates of any age group with mounting financial pressures in an uncertain economy. In...

The number of young people (ages 18-24) living in poverty has increased over the last several decades, with young adults among the most poverty-prone age groups since the onset of...