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Some More News: Why Can’t Gen Z Find A Job?

Some More News

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4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Hi. The American job market, especially for young people, has changed drastically since the 1980s. Does that mean it’s all Reagan’s fault, or just mostly Reagan’s fault?


Hosted by Cody Johnston

Executive Producer - Katy Stoll

Directed by Will Gordh

Written by Rachel Van Nes

Produced by Jonathan Harris

Edited by Gregg Meller

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Head Writer - David Christopher Bell


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0:00.0

Lightning Crash! Lightning Crash! Chains rattling! It's spooky season! Headless horse sounds!

0:09.0

That would just be silence.

0:12.0

You gotta watch the scary movies, right? There's that ghost dog sequel.

0:16.0

Also the new Nightmare on Elm Street. Weapons is on streaming.

0:20.0

Anyone watch Weapons? It's about Anyone watch weapons? It's about weapons.

0:23.1

This episode is not about weapons or weapons. It's about the job market, but we can make it scary.

0:30.5

So, all right, here we go. All weapons it. This is a true story that happened here in my country two years ago.

0:39.3

A lot of college grads were unemployed in really weird ways in this story.

0:44.3

And you'll probably find it all over the news because economists and top people in this country

0:50.3

were like so freaked out about not being able to solve it that they you know what this is

0:55.3

obviously not working that failed okay so we'll just do an episode about it

0:58.6

mhmaha curse of the tail of the painful death of entry level jobs listen it's scary just not in a way where somebody stabs themselves in the face with a fork in their house.

1:15.6

More in the way where people simply don't have houses to begin with.

1:18.6

Speaking of financial terror, you should like this video and subscribe to our channel.

1:22.6

Your validation sustains us!

1:25.6

And it's free to do because, boy, money.

1:31.2

Yeesh. The national job situation is bad and getting worse. The number of Gen Z

1:37.3

grads who can't find a full-time job in their first year out of college has more than

1:41.8

doubled from the previous generations. Probably related is the fact that the unemployment rate for these same grads is beyond

1:49.0

double the overall rate.

1:51.0

Everything is twice as bad.

1:53.0

Cool?

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