Unemployment Much Lower Among Occupy Protesters Than Tea Party One of the mindless attacks on Occupy protesters is that they are lazy and should “go get a job”.
In fact, most Occupy protesters have jobs.
For example, Scott Olsen – the Marine veteran peacefully protesting in Oakland who was shot in the head with a projectile by riot police – had a very good day job, but was so dedicated that he went to the protests after work:
Scott Olsen, 24, joined the protests as he worked his day job as a network engineer and left his apartment each night to sleep alongside protesters in San Francisco and Oakland, Calif., Keith Shannon said. ***
Olsen, who is originally from Wisconsin, served two tours of duty in Iraq, makes a good living at a San Francisco software company and had a hillside apartment that overlooks San Francisco Bay.
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Each night, he would go out to the tent camps that have sprung up over the past month in cities as the movement spread to protest economic inequality and what they see as corporate greed.
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Indeed, the Wall Street Journal found:
The vast majority of demonstrators are actually employed, and the proportion of protesters unemployed (15%) is within single digits of the national unemployment rate (9.1%).
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In contrast, a 2010 New York Times CBS News poll found that only 56% of members of the Tea party were employed (question 105).
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