In ‘Occupy,’ Well-Educated Professionals Far Outnumbered Jobless, Study Finds

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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.

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But the study also suggested that many Occupy participants might have been more in the mainstream than some people might have guessed. 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 the high level of education, the researchers found that a significant percentage of Occupy participants were underemployed, with nearly a quarter working fewer than 35 hours a week.

Professor Luce characterized the protesters who had problems finding full-time work as part of an emerging demographic that some commentators call the “precariat” — educated people forced into unsteady or insecure jobs because little else is available.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/28/in-occupy-well-educated-professionals-far-outnumbered-jobless-study-finds/

[JDPriestly]

1. End the H-1B visas and require employers to employ American citizens

first. No matter the job, American citizens should be given a preference. Employers should be require to advertise all jobs they want to offer to H-1B visas to a special agency that makes sure that every qualified American has been interviewed and either offered the job or told in writing why the job was given to a non-citizen.

This assumes that we will have fair immigration reform for people now in the country.

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2. You do understand that the Occupiers are not just after better jobs?

They've been radicalized and they see much deeper problems than the lack of jobs. Inequality. The complete lack of democracy in the workplace. The growing lack of democracy in our system of government. And beyond that, the whole tangle of traditional left-wing issues, to the horrors of US foreign policy to the devastation of the environment.

Ending H-1B visas is not going to cut it.

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. This: