Does a Generation Burdened by Debt Care About Government Spending?
Democrats and Republicans would do well to talk about the federal deficit. No, seriously.
A roll of 'I Voted' stickers, which are handed out to residents after they vote, sit on an election officials table at a polling place on November 4, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri.
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The political arguments for reducing the national debt often focus on the disastrous results awaiting our children and grandchildren. But do the kids even care?
A Washington-based nonprofit known as The Can Kicks Back set out to answer that question by testing an interactive, online ad campaign in two U.S. House races this year. That data, provided to Bloomberg Politics, show younger voters may indeed be willing to engage on federal spending.