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Occupy protesters: Professional and well-educated

http://www.salon.com/2013/01/29/occupy_protesters_professional_and_well_educated/

While onlookers shouted at OWS marches to "Get a job!" a new study reaffirms the absurdity of such taunts

When Occupy Wall Street protests were their most buoyant, from fall 2011 to May 2012, rarely would a street march go by in New York without some suited onlooker shouting “Get a job!” to the careening crowds. As participants were well aware at the time — and as a brand-new study affirms — most participants had jobs. “I have three!” I recall one public school teacher retorting as a march snaked through Lower Manhattan.

A new study from CUNY’s Joseph A. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies, base...