AXIOS (Avery Lotz) - America's job market optimism gap is the worst in the world
Data: Gallup; Chart: Avery Lotz/Axios Young Americans have a gloomier outlook on their job 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. - Elsewhere, younger people are more positive, or the generations' sentiments are more aligned. - When President Trump and China's leader Xi Jinping meet this week to discuss the world's two largest economies, they'll already have one thing in common: Their young people are far more discouraged than their parents. By the…
Data: Gallup; Chart: Avery Lotz/Axios Young Americans have a gloomier outlook on their job 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. - Elsewhere, younger people are more positive, or the generations' sentiments are more aligned. - When President Trump and China's leader Xi Jinping meet this week to discuss the world's two largest economies, they'll already have one thing in common: Their young people are far more discouraged than their parents. By the…Open