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Jan 16, 2012

Our One-Percenters Are Richer Than Yours

Ever since the Occupy Wall Street movement coined the protest slogan “We are the 99 percent!”, it has been bandied around as an admonition of the income inequality that has grown through the U.S. in recent years. But as anyone will tell you, the 99 percent isn’t a homogenous group, much less do all its members have the same interests, ideological inclinations or even incomes. Neither do members of the hated 1 percent, it seems.

 
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