Can young voters break out of the trickle-down trap?

Abacus Data ‘finds millennials clearly prioritize spending over balanced budgets to tackle issues like alleviating income inequality.’

Millennials, a key group of voters in the next election, have the potential to broaden political discourse beyond the usual dead-end economic theories that carried so much weight in the past, argues Les Whittington. The Hill Times file photograph

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

May 2, 2018

OTTAWA—Assessing the way the rich and the corporate-CEO class have reshaped the distribution of income in their favour, contributing to today’s glaring wealth gap, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz put it like this: “Those at the top have learned how to suck out money from the rest...

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