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Originally Posted by Susanbanthony
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changing the national conversation is a positive outcome in-and-of itself.
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Some people do not want a national conversation or cannot intelligently or maturely participate in it. The point does stand, though, that there are many reasons why this generation and the previous generations are starting to get pissed and want to talk about it.
I thought this was interesting:
http://occupywallst.org/media/pdf/OW...nt-v2-HRCG.pdf
*** 64.2% of respondents were younger than 34 years of age.
*** While the sample is relatively young, one in three respondents is older than 35 and 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), and close to 21.5% have a graduate school degree.
*** 26.7% of respondents were enrolled in school and 73.3% were not enrolled in school.
*** 50.4% were employed full-time and 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.