A recent study called "Changing the Subject: A Bottom Up Account of Occupy Wall Street in New York City" shows that the majority of them were educated professionals, not jobless. The 51 page report was written by Ruth Milkman, Stephanie Luce and Penny Lewis and published in 2013. All three contributers are holders of a Ph. D in Sociology.
New York Times journalist Colin Moynihan writes, "More than a third of the people who participated in Occupy Wall Street protests in New York lived in households with annual incomes of $100,000 or more, according to a study by sociologists at the City University of New York, and more than two-thirds had professional jobs."
It'd be cool to make a graphic of the other results of the study:
"nearly a third of the protesters had been laid off or lost a job, and a similar number said they had more than $1,000 in credit card or student loan debt."
"Nearly 80 percent had at least a bachelor’s degree, the authors wrote, and about half of those with bachelor’s degrees had a graduate degree."
Despite Occupiers' education, "nearly a quarter working fewer than 35 hours a week."
New term: “precariat” — educated people forced into unsteady or insecure jobs because little else is available.
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