‘They don’t want to get a job’: Tiana Lowe Doescher on Gen Z’s growing disengagement

Published August 18, 2026 11:45am ET | Updated August 18, 2026 11:45am ET



Washington Examiner economics columnist Tiana Lowe Doescher argued that the biggest problem facing young Americans may not be a lack of jobs, but a growing disengagement from work, school, and social life.

“It’s not that they’re looking for jobs and can’t find them. It’s that they’re spending all this time alone,” Lowe Doescher said on Newmax’s The Right Squad Monday. “They aren’t going on dates. They aren’t hanging out with friends. They aren’t in a sports league.”

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