The Occupy Movement and Income Inequality
- 20 Facts About U.S. Inequality that Everyone Should Know
A set of infographics from The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality. (April 2011)
- 99% v 1%: the data behind the Occupy movement - animation
"It has been the rallying cry of the Occupy movement for the past two months - but is the US really split 99% v 1%? As poverty and inequality reach record levels, how much richer have the rich got? This animation explains what the key data says about the state of America today." (Nov. 2011)
- Business Insider: 15 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wealth And Inequality In America
"The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. Cliché, sure, but it's also more true than at any time since the Gilded Age." A series of charts and graphs. (April 2010)
- CHARTS: Here's What The Wall Street Protesters Are So Angry About...
"Inequality in this country has hit a level that has been seen only once in the nation's history, and unemployment has reached a level that has been seen only once since the Great Depression. And, at the same time, corporate profits are at a record high." (Oct. 2011)
- The Digital Divide
Infographic on the growing divide between the digital haves and have-nots, and the difference in internet access between the U.S. and other countries.
- Inequality.com
"The Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality seeks answers to two questions: 1. Why is the United States so unequal and poverty-stricken? 2. What can or should be done about it?" Articles, facts, publications, podcasts, and videos.
- Nation: Occupy Wall Street FAQ
From The Nation, facts about the protesters, who they are, and what they want. (Sept. 2011) Page includes a link to a daily OccupyUSAblog.
- New York Times: Income Inequality; Too Big to Ignore
"In short, the economist’s cost-benefit approach — itself long an important arrow in the moral philosopher’s quiver — has much to say about the effects of rising inequality. We need not reach agreement on all philosophical principles of fairness to recognize that it has imposed considerable harm across the income scale without generating significant offsetting benefits." (Oct. 2010)
- New York Times: Our Banana Republic
"I regularly travel to banana republics notorious for their inequality. In some of these plutocracies, the richest 1 percent of the population gobbles up 20 percent of the national pie. But guess what? You no longer need to travel to distant and dangerous countries to observe such rapacious inequality. We now have it right here at home." (Nov. 2010)
- Occupy Wall Street
"OccupyWallSt.org is the unofficial de facto online resource for the growing occupation movement happening on Wall Street and around the world. ... The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%."
- Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%
"The upper 1 percent of Americans are now taking in nearly a quarter of the nation’s income every year. In terms of wealth rather than income, the top 1 percent control 40 percent." (May 2011)
- Slate: The United States of Inequality
A series of incisive articles looking at the state of wealth and income, labor, government policy, and related issues. Some analyses may be found via The Atlantic Magazine. (Sept. 2010)
- Time: Charting the Decline
"Why the U.S. is not the land of opportunity it once was." (Oct. 2011)
- Times Topics: Occupy Wall Street Navigator
"A list of resources from around the Web about Occupy Wall Street as selected by researchers and editors of The New York Times."
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