Occupy Wall Street live General Assembly meeting

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

Data survey of 1,619 respondents placed on occupywallst.org reveals the following about OWS supporters:

* 64.2% are younger than 34 years of age.
* One in three respondents is older than 35, one in five respondents is 45 and older.

* 7.9% of respondents have a high school degree or less.
* 92.1% of the sample has some college, a college degree, or a graduate degree.
* 27.4% have some college (but no degree), 35% have a college degree, 8.2% have some graduate school (but no degree), close to 21.5% have a graduate school degree.
* This is a highly educated sample.

* 26.7% of respondents were enrolled in school, 73.3% were not enrolled in school.

* 50.4% were employed full-time, an additional 20.4% were employed part-time.
* 13.1% of the sample are unemployed.

* 2.6% of respondents were retired, 1.3% disabled, 2.6% homemakers and 9.7% are full-time students.

* 47.5% of the sample earns less than $24,999 dollars a year and another quarter (24%) earn between $25,000 and $49,999 per year.
* 71.5% of the sample earns less than $50,000 per year.
* 15.4% of the sample earned between $50,000 and $74,999.
* The remainder 13% of the sample earn over $75,000 with close to 2% earning over $150,000 per year.

* 27.3% of respondents considered themselves Democrats, another 2.4% said they were Republican.
* A very large proportion of the sample, close to 70.3%, considered themselves Independents.

what's your point? Are these the people who decided against feeding those 'lower' than them? Or are they just against their 'chefs'?

[Riot]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

what's your point? Are these the people who decided against feeding those 'lower' than them? Or are they just against their 'chefs'?

DaTruth wrote: I wonder if there are any protestors who fall just outside the top 1%? I think it is comical for anyone making over say $250k a year to think they are united in an economic struggle with common folks.