Study says Occupy Wall Street protesters are young, poor, and engaged in social media
It’s a dangerous combination.
The official (or unofficial—who knows?) website for the movement published data on Wednesday to suggest that most (70 percent) of its supporters consider themselves politically independent (while a little more than 27 percent are Democrats and 2.4 percent are Republican).
Héctor R. Cordero-Guzmán, PhD, a sociologist at the City University of New York, analyzed data compiled on the OWS site, and made the following observations about their social media use:
• 66.4 percent in the sample agree somewhat or strongly that they regularly use Facebook;
• 28.9 percent in the sample agree somewhat or strongly that they regularly use Twitter;
• 73.9 percent in the sample agree somewhat or strongly that they regularly use YouTube.
In terms of earnings, most could use a raise:
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