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To: i-node who wrote (631504)	10/14/2011 12:10:56 AM
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CHARTS: Here's What The Wall Street Protesters Are So Angry About... The "Occupy Wall Street" protests are gaining momentum, having spread from a small park in New York to marches to other cities across the country. So far, the protests seem fueled by a collective sense that things in our economy are not fair or right. But the protesters have not done a good job of focusing their complaints—and thus have been skewered as malcontents who don't know what they stand for or want. read more.................... Let's start with the obvious: Unemployment. Three years after the financial crisis, the unemployment rate is still at the highest level since the Great Depression (except for a brief blip in the early 1980s) Jobs are scarce, so many adults have given up looking for them. Thus, a sharp decline in the "participation ratio." And it's not like unemployment these days is a quick, painful jolt: A record percentage of unemployed people have been unemployed for longer than 6 months. And it's not just construction workers who can't find jobs. The median duration of all unemployment is also near an all-time high. That 9% rate, by the way, equates to 14 million Americans—people who want to work but can't find a job. And many more where these came from........click on link below: businessinsider.com