Thought for the Week: Inter-generational injustice requires wholesale reform

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Gavin Oldham

Thought for the Week: Inter-generational injustice requires wholesale reform

Gavin Oldham
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Thought for the Week

Thought for the Week: Inter-generational injustice requires wholesale reform
David Willetts set out the challenge of inter-generational injustice 14 years ago in his book, 'The Pinch': but the problems have got worse, not better, during that same period of Conservative government. Young people face huge problems as a result of a fiscal environment structured to benefit older people, student debt, asset prices inflated by prolonged low interest rates — and then the pandemic: not to speak of demographic dislocations as a result of migration. Government finances may indeed require a complete overhaul, but it needs to be done in combination with resolving inter-generational injustice. Background music: 'Generations Away' by Unicorn Heads

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Topics: Careers (in Work); Student, Adult (in Financial Education); Moral Dilemmas (in Ethics & Morality)

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