August 13, 2012
kiplinger: usnews: Today’s Chart of the Day comes via the Congressional Budget Office Queue Occupy chants …  From the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. The drop from 2008 to the present for the top 1% looks big but don’t feel bad for them. Overall their income has grown more than three times as much as it has for everyone else since 1979.

kiplinger:

usnews:

Today’s Chart of the Day comes via the Congressional Budget Office

Queue Occupy chants … 

From the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

The drop from 2008 to the present for the top 1% looks big but don’t feel bad for them. Overall their income has grown more than three times as much as it has for everyone else since 1979.

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Filed under: CBO The 1% The 99% Occupy income inequality 
January 25, 2012
ilovecharts: - Ben Greenman, via McSweeney’s

ilovecharts:

- Ben Greenman, via McSweeney’s

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Filed under: occupywallstreet occupy the 1% the one percent 
January 25, 2012
Inequality is moving up the systemic agenda but the Occupy movement needs to be better organized to influence the institutional agenda. First organize to influence elections but that organization has to be maintained to influence the process of governing, which is where corporate lobbyists do the most damage. motherjones: huffingtonpost: Number of articles with the word ‘inequality’ in U.S. newspapers - October 2010 through October 2011. Peter Dreier: Occupy Wall Street: Changing the Topic We could take a tiny bit of credit, but that’s not the point: The inequality is the point.

Inequality is moving up the systemic agenda but the Occupy movement needs to be better organized to influence the institutional agenda. First organize to influence elections but that organization has to be maintained to influence the process of governing, which is where corporate lobbyists do the most damage.

motherjones:

huffingtonpost:

Number of articles with the word ‘inequality’ in U.S. newspapers - October 2010 through October 2011.

Peter Dreier: Occupy Wall Street: Changing the Topic

We could take a tiny bit of credit, but that’s not the point: The inequality is the point.

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Filed under: occupy occupy Wall Street inequality 
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