What do Utah Millennials and GenZers want from their government? And how well do Gov. Cox and the legislature's priorities match up with those wishes? Andy Larsen looks at the data.
, but in short, Cox’s main rhetorical device was to focus on Utah’s young people — smart to do, in the the youngest state in the nation. Cox called on Utah’s youth to have “faith in our capacity and commitment to solve today’s hard problems together,” and then went on to discuss some of his policy priorities for the 45-day legislative session to follow.
But the Utah Foundation’s study didn’t include the opinion of any Generation Z kids, generally considered those born after 1997 or so. And of course, it’s possible priorities have shifted since 2020, too. So to get a perspective on those issues, we may have to look at research done in America more generally.
Alliance For Youth Action polling on young people in battleground states ahead of the 2022 elections. Harvard’s Youth Poll interviewed 2,123 American young adults ages 18-29 ahead of the 2022 elections, and found a pretty similar spread of top issues.In this poll, inflation, abortion, protecting democracy, climate change and gun control were the top five issues.
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