70% of Gen Z are so anxious about money that they can’t sleep—they’re dealing with it by bed rotting and watching TV instead of budgeting

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Inflation is stubborn, unemployment is rising and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has even confirmed that Gen Z grads just can’t get a break right now. But the youngest generation of workers already know that. In fact, they’re so anxious about the state of the economy right now that they can’t even sleep. 

So what are they doing about it? They’re, perhaps counterintuitively, bed rotting and watching TV.