Kamala Harris

They're age about 13 through 27.

They've only known the climate crisis.

They missed substantial parts of their education because of the pandemic.

If they're in high school or college, especially in college, it is very likely that whatever they've chosen as their major for study may not result in an affordable wage.

They've coined the term climate anxiety to describe fear of not only being able to buy a home, but that fear of being wiped out by extreme weather, but fear of having children.

It is expected that Gen Z will have 10 to 12 jobs in their lifetime.

They are a larger number than boomers.

There's a specific generation of people who are going to impact our nation and the world.

And I think we must invest in them.

But I think that they are rightly impatient with a lot of what is the tradition of leadership right now.

And if they were able to vote because they know everything that's happening right now is going to impact them more than anybody older than them for the most part in terms of how these systems work.

If they're voting right now,

At 16 and up, they're going to be talking about the importance of climate.

They're going to be talking about the importance of figuring out how AI is going to affect the future of the workforce.

They're going to be focused on what are we really doing about affordable housing.

And basically in politics, here's the hard truth about this.

There are two centers of power that tend to influence how politicians think.

Groups that vote the most and people who write the most checks.

And I'm going to go every day with the people, the people, and thinking about how do we strengthen people actually going to the polls and voting.

Back to my point, in 2024, one-third of the electorate didn't vote.