Poll: Minimum wage is a more important issue than gun control to Gen Z

[dogboy49]

https://www.axios.com/minimum-wage-...ers-7b0edd30-6532-46f6-b5af-792c3c258f02.html

Despite the impact of mass school shootings in America, the issue doesn't move voters from 18 to 21 years old as much as anticipated. Other issues like minimum wage, LGBT rights and taxing corporations hold more importance to them

The backdrop: Since the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in February, students from the March For Our Lives group have been pushing younger voters to get to the polls. However, the message of gun control may not be as powerful as initially thought.

 

[DH Kirkwood]

I don't know what generation I fall under, but behind campaign-finance-reform, raising the minimum to fifteen-an-hour is my primary concern. Gun-control isn't even on my radar by comparison.

 

[Captain Adverse]

IMO minimum wage should change as the cost of living changes.

Inflation makes a mockery of savings, much less meeting increasing costs of rent, food, etc.

As costs go up but fixed minimum wage standards don't adjust with the change, people suffer.

People entering the workforce aren't worried about being robbed at gunpoint if they don't have much to steal.

I am not surprised that gun control may not be their primary concern. :shrug:

 

[trouble13]

https://www.axios.com/minimum-wage-...ers-7b0edd30-6532-46f6-b5af-792c3c258f02.html

Perhaps the title should read 2A rights more important to this generation that the old guard left

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[Real Korimyr #9]

This is the truth I've been trying to get gun rights organizations to open their eyes to.

They can either start appealing to younger voters... or they might as well start burying their guns with their parents.

 

[Lursa]

So to me it shows a realistic view of how they are very very unlikely to be accidentally or intentionally shot in public.

And that they have an interest in something that will have a higher incidence of impacting their lives: wages. Altho it's a bit scary to think they're worried about minimum wage...after all, if you have some life goals, minimum wage shouldnt worry a young person, it's just entry level and they'll soon move on.