From the NY Post: It seems those Occupy Wall Streeters were
a lot closer to the 1 percent than they would like to admit.
A new study of the OWS movement in New York found that many of the protesters
were highly educated and not nearly as down on their luck as they portrayed. A third of protesters in the Occupy Wall
Street movement in New York lived in households earning more than $100,000 and
more than two- thirds were employed professionals, according to the study from
CUNY’s Joseph A. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies.
The study also showed the movement was mostly organized by
experienced political operatives and nearly all of those involved — 76 percent
— were college educated. Of those, half
had graduate degrees and among those with bachelor’s degrees, and 28 percent
had attended elite universities.
“Occupy Wall Street was not a spontaneous eruption but
rather an action carefully planned by committed activists,” the study
concluded. Additionally, the study found
that the protesters were also disproportionately men — 55 percent — and many
were white.
“It’s a pretty affluent demographic and highly educated,”
said Professor Ruth Milkman, one of the study’s authors. “Many were the children
of the elite, if you will….”
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