Don On The Scene: Young Voters Are Struggling to Find Jobs!

The Don Lemon Show

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News, Society & Culture

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This afternoon, Don takes it to the streets to hear directly from the people, because right now, folks are fed up. Today’s jobs report technically came in stronger than expected, with the U.S. adding more jobs than economists predicted. But for a lot of Americans, that headline doesn’t match reality. People are struggling to find work, prices are still painfully high, and gas costs continue to climb as tensions with Iran and uncertainty around the Strait of Hormuz drag on. So what’s really happening in this economy? Why does everything feel so disconnected from what people are actually experiencing? Don hits the streets to hear what everyday people have to say about jobs, affordability, the Iran conflict, and the growing frustration boiling across the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Right, home from work, walk the dog, kids are back.
0:04.4	Mom!
0:05.0	Up the stairs for something.
0:07.8	Ugh, back down, no idea what I went up for.
0:12.0	Mom, what's for dinner?
0:13.6	Chop, sizzle, done.
0:17.1	Hello, fresh, can't slow life down, but it makes bringing everyone together around the table a whole lot easier.
0:23.4	So its phones down, forks up.
0:25.5	Hello, Fresh. Bring back dinner time.
0:31.1	Oh, we're live. How are you?
0:32.9	I'm good. How are you?
0:34.1	I'm good. How are you? Very nice to meet you.
0:35.2	I want to talk to young people about the job prospects and what's going on in the world.
0:39.3	How do you feel about the job prospects?
0:41.3	College student.
0:42.3	Very crazy.
0:43.3	I'm about to graduate next week from NYU.
0:45.3	I work in the music industry, so it's already a very, very changing industry.
0:51.3	It's tough.
0:53.3	It's honestly very, very tough. Security is very low, trying to search and find
0:58.0	opportunities, but yeah. Are your friends, do your friends talk about this? A lot. That's a lot of what we're
1:04.1	talking about right now. Yeah. Like, I think just the search, a lot of it is just trying to meet people and especially in, you know, entertainment industries and arts industries, it's a lot of who you know. And that can be very difficult because who you know might not be, I don't know, it might lead to a lucrative job opportunity, i don't know it's it's interesting i have
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