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There are plenty of side hustles that are well suited for Gen Z, such as affiliate marketing on social media and food delivery.

Democrat Maxwell Alejandro Frost has defeated Republican Calvin Wimbish for a Florida U.S. House seat, making him the first member of Generation Z to win a seat in Congress. Frost, a 25-year-old gun reform and social justice activist, ran in a heavily blue Orlando-area district being relinquished by Democratic Rep. Val Demings, who challenged Republican Sen. Marco Rubio this year....

Midterm results continue to be called in states across the country, but many highly watched races have already been called. Here’s what you need to know.

“9/11 remains one of the most significant events many Americans have experienced,” said Dan Vallone, director for More in Common USA. “But it is receding into history for younger Americans.”

A survey of people ages 16 to 40 finds that millennials and Generation Z follow the news but aren’t that happy with what they’re seeing.

25-year-old Maxwell Frost recently won the Democratic primary race in Florida’s 10th Congressional District. If Frost wins November’s general election, he will make history as the first Gen Z member of Congress and the first Afro-Cuban in Congress. Frost is a gun control activist and has been endorsed by progressive candidates like Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Matthew Frost...

The internet has taken the iconic “Little Miss” and “Mr. Men” characters to create the newest meme to share anything from health struggles to red flags.

Millennials and Gen Z are most ready to avoid plastic and opt for a less wasteful procedure.

Most Gen Zers and millennials really do want to own a home someday, if not right now. Their biggest roadblock is affordability, a recent Bankrate survey says.

Politicians often overlook young adults, but 18- to 25-year-olds are flexing political muscle in ways they can no longer ignore.

One of the first stories about seasonal affective disorder, published in the The Washington Post in 1981, starts with a young woman telling her psychiatrist that she “should have been a bear” because of her urge to hibernate when the days become shorter in the fall. She was kind of joking, the outlet noted, but her awareness of her cyclical…

Girls are more likely to be dissatisfied with environmental efforts than boys, and older teens are more likely to care about corporations’ role in climate change than younger teens, new data finds.

Generation Z voters are the least likely to identify as conservative, but they’re also the most likely to disapprove of the job President Biden is doing, and that’s a growing problem for Democrats ahead of the 2022 midterms. NBCLX political editor Noah Pransky breaks down why Gen Z feels this way and what Dems are doing to fight it.

The Facebook rebrand to Meta featured many TikTok stars who don’t really have a presence on Meta-owned platforms, says Insider reporter Palmer Haasch. That’s likely no accident, as data shows Gen Z is using Facebook less and sees the platform as one for Boomers.

While opinion polls show young voters consistently rank climate change and the future of the planet at or near the top of their priorities when they think about casting a ballot, the same surveys also reveal Gen Z-ers rank the future of the national debt considerably lower down their list of priorities. It’s almost a mirror image of the...

Young people are much more likely to prioritize issues like climate change over the national debt than older generations when hitting the voting booth, research shows. NBCLX political editor Noah Pransky explores the reasons for this generational divide.

Losing Virginia’s governor race isn’t the only development from Tuesday’s elections that has Democrats concerned heading into a vital midterm year. Turnout among their youngest, most progressive voters was down by stunning numbers in an otherwise high-turnout gubernatorial race. The share of votes coming from Virginians under the age of 30 was just 10%, according to preliminary NBC News...

NBC Responds looked at how millennials can protect themselves from financial fraud

Many people assume the elderly are the primary target of scams, but now the younger generations are being duped just as much.