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
Early Results Show Millennials and Gen Z are More Egalitarian, Fatalistic than Older Generations For years, researchers have documented how Millennials (born between 1981 and 1996) and Gen Z (born
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 young workers now facing a weakened economy due to the COVID recession, conversations around student loan forgiveness have become a central part of the national policy debate around how to fix the student debt crisis.
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 inform the national debate as new income…
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 response to such challenges, this issue brief explores weaknesses in the current social safety net and how it could be strengthened to better support young adults.
The figure below tracks when pandemic extensions to the social safety net were initially set to expire. *Some of these dates have since changed as some programs were subsequently extended.
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 the Great Recession, according to a new issue brief from the Berkeley Institute for Young Americans (BIFYA).
We envision a new paradigm in public policy that advances an equitable, sustainable, and prosperous society for current and future generations.
