Ryan Bourne

But what if this isn't because Gen Z lacks motivation? What if it's because they're responding to bad government policies? I'm Rikhishna and welcome to the Cato Weekly Podcast.

Today, I'm joined by Ryan Bourne, the R. Evan Scharf Chair for the Public Understanding of Economics here at Cato, and the primary author of The Affordability Handbook, which talks about a lot of the issues that we are about to tackle today.

So Ryan, I wanna start with just a general impression that I feel like a lot of young people my age have, which is that everything from housing to healthcare, education, is unaffordable for us in a way that it wasn't for prior generations.

In your view, is that a defensible position? And also, what are the major policy issues that are kind of causing that impression among young people?