Miles Corak: Inequality and life chances
While it is now only just over a year since the Occupy Wall Street movement began to draw attention to the wide and growing gulf between the 1% and the 99%, many have been quick to dismiss its staying power. After all, it was pointed out from the very beginning that the Occupy movement really did not have much to offer in terms of concrete policy proposals. But the vagueness OWS projects in terms of its policy proposals is hardly a basis for dismissing its significance.