Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

I'm Lurie Daniel Favors, author, activist, attorney, and the host of the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius XM's Urban View, Channel 126. If you like what you're about to hear, go ahead and give us five stars and then tell everybody that you know. And if you don't like it, just, child, keep it to yourself and pray our strength. Okay, thank you so much. Also, don't forget to check out my YouTube page, Lurie Daniel Favor's Media, where you should subscribe, like, and share, because then you'll get notified when I post videos from my show, which I do just about every single day and when I go live with my YouTube audience. You know how as soon as summer hits, even if the temperatures are technically still high

during the day, it can feel a lot cooler in the morning and the evening hours. I only know this

about the morning because, child, I have just started working out with this virtual online group. It is

amazing, but it really has me up earlier than I would like to be, but that's a good thing because

it allowed me to gain insight into what it is I'm going to share with you right now. There's this thing that happens in the early morning and in the evenings of September. It's a subtle change, but it's noticeable, especially if you, like me, know that summer is absolutely the best season of the year. Bonus points, if you also know that July is the best month. Listen, friends, I don't make the rules. I just state the obvious. But anyway, back to the shift in the weather. And that shift in the weather that I experienced this morning when I later, after my workout, which went very, very well, shout out to the coach. Later when I turned on my business news channels, which I do in the mornings, I started to notice a slightly

different shift there as well, one where the economic prognosticators and the people who

study things like the economy have begun to use the R word. Now, this is not the R word that we

regularly use as Gen X kids and those of you who came in generations before us.

That R word that we no longer use because we have finally all agreed that it is really disrespectful

AF. That's not the R word I'm talking about. And if you don't know what R word I'm talking about,

good for you. It's a good thing. I am talking, however, in fact, about a different R word,

one that sends chills down the financial spines.

And that word is recession.

And this time, the focus is on how the recession

is impacting some of our more vulnerable groups.

And that would be the young folk, which includes Gen Z.

In fact, this first conversation is all about Gen Z

because, child, once you start hearing people on Squackbox and CNBC start using the recession word, and then at the same time, you begin seeing articles entitled, Gen Z are dipping into their retirements, skipping meals and selling their belongings just to get by new report finds.

Then you realize you are on to something.

Now, earlier this year, I talked a lot

about how young people and, frankly, their older siblings and cousins and parents were using

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