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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.
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what's your point? Are these the people who decided against feeding those 'lower' than them? Or are they just against their 'chefs'? |
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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.
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"Have the clean racing people run any ads explaining that giving a horse a Starbucks and a chocolate poppyseed muffin for breakfast would likely result in a ten year suspension for the trainer?" - Dr. Andrew Roberts |