A politician who grew up in poverty might be expected to see inequality differently from someone raised in comfort. But a new study finds that personal experience does not speak for itself: what matters is how politicians interpret the struggles they lived through.
Growing up poor does not automatically shape how politicians understand inequality, study finds
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