History of the United States II / Unit 17 USH2 2425 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Occupy Wall Street
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The idea
In two thousand eleven young, left-leaning New Yorkers occupied Wall Street to protest an economy that seemed tilted toward the one percent, the Yawp records.
In practice
The same resentment, the Yawp says, that fed the Tea Party on the right.
Where people slip
The Yawp reports that from two thousand nine to two thousand thirteen eighty-five percent of new income went to the top one percent.
Your place on the trail
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