{"id":155998,"date":"2025-09-20T00:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T00:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/155998\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T00:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T00:34:08","slug":"survey-70-of-gen-z-losing-sleep-over-money-woes-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/155998\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: 70% of Gen Z Losing Sleep Over Money Woes in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rising inflation, climbing unemployment, and shaky job prospects are taking a toll on Gen Z \u2014 so much so that nearly 70% say financial stress is keeping them up at night.<\/p>\n

A survey by Amerisleep, which polled over 1,000 Americans, found that almost half of all age groups lose sleep over money worries such as inflation and layoffs. But Gen Z tops the list, with 69% lying awake thinking about finances and 47% fretting about job security \u2014 more than any other generation.<\/p>\n

High housing and rent costs are also key disruptors, with nearly half of young adults citing them as their biggest source of stress.<\/p>\n

The study revealed that 47% of Americans have woken up in the middle of the night due to financial anxiety, and 11% now average fewer than 5 hours of sleep. Among those who check their bank accounts before bed, that figure rises to 13%.<\/p>\n

Instead of turning to financial planning, many Gen Zers cope in ways that worsen the problem. Over half scroll social media when they can\u2019t sleep, 47% binge TV shows, and more than a third resort to \u201cbed rotting\u201d \u2014 lying in bed for long stretches without purpose, which experts warn further disrupts healthy sleep cycles.<\/p>\n

Even headlines themselves are a trigger: nearly half of respondents said reading economic news late in the day has kept them awake. Worry peaks either before bedtime (25%), in the middle of the night (16%), or simply lingers all day (36%).<\/p>\n

Health experts caution that while screen time or bed rotting might feel like a distraction, they may intensify insomnia. Instead, they recommend a calming bedtime routine, a \u201cphone curfew,\u201d and stress-relief techniques such as journaling or deep breathing to help reclaim rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rising inflation, climbing unemployment, and shaky job prospects are taking a toll on Gen Z \u2014 so much…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46,8980,183],"class_list":["post-155998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-gen-z","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}