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<a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="Young Americans" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/2025/12/04/gen-z-ai-economic-anxiety-harvard-poll" data-vars-content-id="60292835-1665-45b4-bb76-a5f29d8f437b" data-vars-headline="America&#x27;s job market optimism gap is the world&#x27;s worst" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/2025/12/04/gen-z-ai-economic-anxiety-harvard-poll" target="_self">Young Americans</a> have a gloomier outlook on their <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="job" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/economy/jobs" data-vars-content-id="60292835-1665-45b4-bb76-a5f29d8f437b" data-vars-headline="America&#x27;s job market optimism gap is the world&#x27;s worst" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/economy/jobs" target="_self">job</a> prospects than their older colleagues, creating a wider optimism gap than any other country surveyed by Gallup.The big picture: The very existence of that chasm between pessimistic younger Americans and more positive older people is itself an outlier, with double-digit gaps present only in five other places of the 141 polled.

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