Climate, COVID and civil unrest: Gen Z Michiganders take it to the ballot box

Hundreds of thousands of Gen Z Michiganders will be old enough to vote for president for the first time this Election Day.

They were as young as middle schoolers during the COVID shutdown. They sat in classrooms while the country mourned dozens of victims of school shootings, including four killed at Oxford High School in Michigan in 2021.

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