10 Years Later: What was the impact of Occupy Wall Street?
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While the movement had a political impact, the gap between the top and bottom income earners is still vast.
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It's been 10 years since Occupy Wall Street — What's changed?
The movement's lofty goals of creating a more equitable economy have gone unfulfilled, but the politics of "the 99 percent" have gained traction over the past decade.
Occupy Wall Street set the tone: A decade later, how protests against inequality made the GOP worse
Occupy Wall Street — which started 10 years ago on Friday — has long been understood as a historical novelty, a movement that swiftly rose to national prominence and almost as swiftly sunk below the waves, destroyed by the in-fighting and mission drift that unfortunately tends to plague leftist movements. But, a decade out, it's clearer than ever that the movement had an impact far beyond its own existence.Inspired by the Arab Spring a year befo…
Protesters tried to hold Wall Street accountable by taking over Lower Manhattan for 60 days. But 10 years later, the rich are richer than ever. What went wrong?
A decade after the Occupy Wall Street movement started, its organizers reflect on the movement — and why the gap between rich and poor hasn't changed.
The Real Story of Occupy Wall Street Is What's Happened Since
At the height of last year’s Black Lives Matter uprising, a recording surfaced of a call President Trump held with state governors. In it, he made a comparison: “This is like Occupy Wall Street.” He urged them to waste no time in repeating the coordinated police assaults that had swept away the Occupy encampments across the country. Until the Occupy crackdown began, he told the governors, “It was a disaster.”Trump’s political career had a kind o…
