Younger generations are choosing to lease instead of buying, and their budgets are smaller. A shiny new automobile just isn’t the middle-class marker it used to be.
Boost the minimum wage and you boost the economy from the bottom up, writes economist Armine Yalnizyan. That means more demand for what businesses have to sell.
Christy Clark has been her party’s best player, leading it to an improbable win four years ago. But when it came time to talk to the Greens, the Liberals left her on the bench.