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n e w h a v e n b i z . c o m | M a y / J u n e 2 0 1 9 | n e w h a v e n B I Z 49 SPECIAL ISSUE GREATER NEW HAVEN MARKET INTELLIGENCE REPORT (JULY / AUGUST EDITION 2019) New Haven BIZ will publish an exciting new resource for the region: The Greater New Haven Market Intelligence Report -- delivering data and insights on leading economic indicators and trends in the region. This special issue will deliver useful data and analysis that company owners and senior managers can use to drive decision-making at their organization. Greater New Haven is a unique market with a great story to tell to the region, the state and beyond. Be part of this important issue and tell your story in the 2019 Market Intelligence Report. Contact your representative or Ronni Rabin at rrabin@newhavenbiz.com CORPORATE SPONSOR: Ad deadline: June 7, 2019 Issue date: July/August 2019, with year-round distribution through partner organizations BE PART OF IT - RESERVE YOUR AD TODAY! You're seeing the right with Trump come out and say, 'Here are my solutions' — and we saw tax cuts and different things — and you saw Elizabeth Warren come out and say, 'Here are my solutions' — and the voters are basically going to choose a path. But here's what's different now: When we were growing up, a person who started from nothing and created a business and grew fabu- lously rich was a hero — someone to be admired and emulated. Now that same person is an 'oppressor.' That's a fundamental shift. e pendulum has moved, but I don't think it's going to stay there. I just went through a process of interviewing college students for an internship here [at People's United], and I have to tell you we are still educating some of the smartest and most dynamic kids — and these kids are thinking about careers in banking and finance. It's so easy to say these Millennials hate all of this. I think the loud Millennials are unhappy. But Win- ston Churchill said it best: If you're not a liberal at [age] 20 you have no heart; if you're not a conserva- tive at 40, you have no brain. But economic success no longer seems to have the universal appeal it historically did for young people in America. I was on the board of the [Fairfield] Council of Churches, and one of the debates we had was on income inequality. I did a lot of research on this, and what I discovered was that most people are not saying, 'Burn down the house.' e politicians are talking about it, but you're seeing a lot of real grass-roots revolt about this. Most people are happy that Bill Gates did as well as he did, because they love his soware. Most people are happy that LeBron James is making a lot of money, because he plays basketball better than they do. ey don't begrudge him that. Most people are saying, 'I don't want to be treated exactly equal; I just want to be treated fairly.' Everybody wants a fair shot. ey're not saying, 'Burn down the house.' So, the pendulum swings. It will come back. n O N T H E R E C O R D Continued from Page 7 'You need to create an environment that makes companies want to stay here and grow here.'

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