27% of young republican workers don't want to live in a state that bans abortions: CNBC Generation Lab survey

It has been nearly two years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe V Wade. More than 20 states now have bans or restrictions on abortion. A new CNBC survey now shows that those laws are impacting where young people are looking for jobs. CNBC senior personal finance correspondent Sharon Epperson joins us now. So Sharon, this is interesting. Take us through the results of the CNBC survey. What was interesting was when we looked at 18 to 34 year olds, their views on whether or not they would want to live in a state where there was an abortion ban or. Get a job offer from a state where there was abortion banned. They didn’t want a part of it. A large percentage of them, 45%, said that they would definitely or probably reject a job offer from a state that had an abortion ban and about 2/3 said that they would not want to live in a state. What was interesting was that even 27% of Republicans said that they would not want to live in a state where there was an abortion ban. Really interesting. But it also strikes me that companies don’t necessarily have influence over what states are deciding. So what are they doing to try and recruit or retain these young workers? In addition to talking to state governments and trying to see if they can get these bans rescinded, they are looking at what can we do as a company to offer employee benefits to make it easier. So many are offering travel compensation for going out of state for the employees that need to go out of state to have an abortion. And some are looking at other types of assistance. They’re saying the research is showing that that is keeping those employees wanting to continue to work there and in some cases causing some employees to say, yes, I will take that job. And Sharon, this this survey looked at other economic issues for young people too. What did it find? Well, we have a pretty strong job market, but there are a lot of folks that don’t really feel that way. When you look at the job market, only about 38% said they felt like it was pretty good, 44% said they thought it was pretty bad actually. And you know in terms of the extremes, 6%, only 6% said it was extremely good and we have a pretty good job market. So it’s interesting perhaps they’re feeling that slow down that we saw a little bit in in April from the highs that we’ve seen, maybe that’s something that they’re feeling even more. The other thing that was interesting is about their personal economy and where they’re feeling the inflation. Hit and it’s definitely in food, definitely in rent, also feeling in a little bit of in health care and clothing and utilities, interesting those day-to-day month to month expenses that really and trying to found housing. They say yeah it may be available but I can’t afford it. That’s something that is really stickler for a lot of folks. Some say it may be hard to find but the majority are saying yeah certainly it’s available, I just can’t afford it.