OPINION: 'Gen Z doesn’t want to work' is bogus, and we can do better |
There are more young people who want to work than there are jobs
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Joshua is 32. He’s polite, motivated, and relentlessly hard-working. He’s enrolled full-time in a carpentry program and determined to build a career in the skilled trades. He is doing everything right.
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But for several months in 2025, he was sleeping in his car.
We have all heard — maybe even said — that young people don’t want to work. That Gen Z doesn’t understand the value of hard work.
That is not true, and Joshua is living proof.
Joshua is a former resident of Youth Without Shelter (YWS). Like more than 1,000 young people across Ontario every year, he “aged out” of Children’s Aid care on his 18 birthday, ready or not. At the time, there were no supports........