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Politicians want the Gen Z buy-in. They’re memeifying the 2024 presidential campaign and creating (admittedly very funny) targeted TikToks, all in an effort to tap the more than 8 million young people who have become eligible to vote since the 2022 midterms.
Brazen attempts to secure the youth vote are nothing new, and both of the country’s major political parties are working overtime for it. Votes are earned and, so far, no one has asked Gen Zers what changes they want to see. As Pratika Kathiyar reported for Nieman Reports in 2010, student journalists are best suited to understand the issues that most affect our youngest voters. Rewire News Group asked a group of students to write about the issues that matter most to them: on-campus reproductive health, the history of gentrification at their school, etc. You can read five articles by Gen Z writers this week and next about the issues they face, including how fewer OB/GYN residents in states with abortion bans are creating a healthcare desert, and what LGBTQ+ students need at HBCUs to feel included. One woman tells us how the Roe v. Wade decision compelled her, in her forties, to return to nursing.
