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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Political slogan</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about the slogan. For the movement, see <a href="/wiki/Occupy_movement" title="Occupy movement">Occupy movement</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"The 1%" redirects here. For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/One_percent_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="One percent (disambiguation)">One percent</a>.</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Occupy_Wall_Street_Together.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Occupy_Wall_Street_Together.svg/310px-Occupy_Wall_Street_Together.svg.png" decoding="async" width="310" height="196" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Occupy_Wall_Street_Together.svg/465px-Occupy_Wall_Street_Together.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Occupy_Wall_Street_Together.svg/620px-Occupy_Wall_Street_Together.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="2338" data-file-height="1480" /></a><figcaption>"We are the 99%" poster referencing the Polish <a href="/wiki/Solidarity_(Polish_trade_union)" title="Solidarity (Polish trade union)">Solidarity</a> movement</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Occupy_Wall_Street_Poster.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Occupy_Wall_Street_Poster.jpg/220px-Occupy_Wall_Street_Poster.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Occupy_Wall_Street_Poster.jpg/330px-Occupy_Wall_Street_Poster.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Occupy_Wall_Street_Poster.jpg/440px-Occupy_Wall_Street_Poster.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="449" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street" title="Occupy Wall Street">Occupy Wall Street</a> poster, September 2011</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:We_are_the_99%25_t-shirts_at_Occupy_Wall_Street.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/We_are_the_99%25_t-shirts_at_Occupy_Wall_Street.JPG/220px-We_are_the_99%25_t-shirts_at_Occupy_Wall_Street.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/We_are_the_99%25_t-shirts_at_Occupy_Wall_Street.JPG/330px-We_are_the_99%25_t-shirts_at_Occupy_Wall_Street.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/We_are_the_99%25_t-shirts_at_Occupy_Wall_Street.JPG/440px-We_are_the_99%25_t-shirts_at_Occupy_Wall_Street.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>Protesters with the "99%" T-shirts at Occupy Wall Street on November 17, 2011 near the <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Hall" title="New York City Hall">New York City Hall</a></figcaption></figure><p><b>We are the 99%</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Political_slogan" class="mw-redirect" title="Political slogan">political slogan</a> widely used and coined during the 2011 <a href="/wiki/Occupy_movement" title="Occupy movement">Occupy movement</a>. The phrase directly refers to the <a href="/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_United_States" title="Income inequality in the United States">income</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_United_States" title="Wealth inequality in the United States">wealth inequality in the United States</a>, with a concentration of wealth among the top-earning 1%. It reflects the understanding that "the 99%" are paying the price for the mistakes of a tiny minority within the <a href="/wiki/Upper_class" title="Upper class">upper class</a>. </p><p>According to the <a href="/wiki/Economic_Policy_Institute" title="Economic Policy Institute">Economic Policy Institute</a>, as of 2019, the average wage of the top 1% was $758,434.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, <b>the 1%</b> is not necessarily a reference to top 1% of wage earners, but a reference to the top 1% of individuals by net worth, whose earned wages are only a fraction of their total sources of wealth.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origin">Origin</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=We_are_the_99%25&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Origin"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mainstream_accounts">Mainstream accounts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=We_are_the_99%25&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Mainstream accounts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The slogan "We are the 99%" became a unifying <a href="/wiki/Slogan" title="Slogan">slogan</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Occupy_movement" title="Occupy movement">Occupy movement</a> in August 2011<sup id="cite_ref-dcourier_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dcourier-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> after a <a href="/wiki/Tumblr" title="Tumblr">Tumblr</a> blog, "wearethe99percent.tumblr.com," was launched in late August 2011 by a 28-year-old New York activist going by the name of "Chris" together with Priscilla Grim.<sup id="cite_ref-theatlantic_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-theatlantic-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Chris credited an August 2011 flyer for the NYC assembly "We The 99%" for the term.<sup id="cite_ref-motherjonesfoundation_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-motherjonesfoundation-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-foreignpolicy_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-foreignpolicy-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A 2011 <i><a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a></i> article attributed to anthropologist <a href="/wiki/David_Graeber" title="David Graeber">David Graeber</a> the suggestion that the Occupy movement represented the 99%.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Graeber was sometimes credited with the slogan "We are the 99%" but attributed the full version to others.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Joseph_E._Stiglitz_-_cropped.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Joseph_E._Stiglitz_-_cropped.jpg/220px-Joseph_E._Stiglitz_-_cropped.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Joseph_E._Stiglitz_-_cropped.jpg/330px-Joseph_E._Stiglitz_-_cropped.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Joseph_E._Stiglitz_-_cropped.jpg/440px-Joseph_E._Stiglitz_-_cropped.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption>Joseph Stiglitz</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Inequality-by-Kenworthy.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Inequality-by-Kenworthy.png/250px-Inequality-by-Kenworthy.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="311" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Inequality-by-Kenworthy.png 1.5x" data-file-width="354" data-file-height="441" /></a><figcaption>Graph by sociologist Lane Kenworthy showing changes in real US incomes in top 1%, middle 60%, and bottom 20% from 1979 through 2007, tracking household income but not individual incomes<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Mainstream media sources trace the origin of the phrase to economist <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stiglitz" title="Joseph Stiglitz">Joseph Stiglitz</a>'s May 2011 article "Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%" in <i><a href="/wiki/Vanity_Fair_(magazine)" title="Vanity Fair (magazine)">Vanity Fair</a></i>, in which he was criticizing the <a href="/wiki/Economic_inequality" title="Economic inequality">economic inequality</a> present in the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-hastings_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hastings-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 241">: 241 </span></sup> In the article Stiglitz spoke of the damaging impact of economic inequality involving 1% of the U.S. population owning a large portion of economic wealth in the country, while 99% of the population hold much less economic wealth than the richest 1%: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>[I]n our democracy, 1% of the people take nearly a quarter of the nation's income … In terms of wealth rather than income, the top 1% control 40% … [as a result] the top 1% have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn't seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99% live. Throughout history, this is something that the top 1% eventually do learn. Too late.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Earlier uses of the term "the one percent" to refer to the wealthiest people in society include the 2006 documentary <a href="/wiki/The_One_Percent_(film)" title="The One Percent (film)">The One Percent (film)</a> about the growing <a href="/wiki/Wealth_gap" class="mw-redirect" title="Wealth gap">wealth gap</a> between the wealthy elite compared to the overall population, and a 2001 opinion column in the <a href="/wiki/MIT" class="mw-redirect" title="MIT">MIT</a> student newspaper <a href="/wiki/The_Tech_(newspaper)" title="The Tech (newspaper)">The Tech (newspaper)</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_published_accounts">Other published accounts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=We_are_the_99%25&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Other published accounts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>More than one publication dates the concept back much further. For instance, <a href="/wiki/Gore_Vidal" title="Gore Vidal">Gore Vidal</a> spoke of "the one percent who own the country, whose power is increasing, not decreasing" in a 1987 interview with <i><a href="/wiki/Playboy" title="Playboy">Playboy</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-VidalPlayboy_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VidalPlayboy-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The one percent and the 99 percent were explained in a February 1984 article titled "The USA: Who Owns It? Who Runs It?" in <i>Black Liberation Month News</i>, published in Chicago and available online as of 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Even further back, historian <a href="/wiki/Howard_Zinn" title="Howard Zinn">Howard Zinn</a> used this concept in "The Coming Revolt of the Guards", the final chapter in the first edition of his book <a href="/wiki/A_People%27s_History_of_the_United_States" title="A People's History of the United States">A People's History of the United States</a> published in 1980.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "I am taking the liberty of uniting those 99 percent as 'the people'. I have been writing a history that attempts to represent their submerged, deflected, common interest. To emphasize the commonality of the 99 percent, to declare deep enmity of interest with the 1 percent, is to do exactly what the governments of the United States, and the wealthy elite allied to them—from the Founding Fathers to now—have tried their best to prevent."<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 1960 novel <i><a href="/wiki/Too_Many_Clients" title="Too Many Clients">Too Many Clients</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Rex_Stout" title="Rex Stout">Rex Stout</a>, part of the <a href="/wiki/Nero_Wolfe" title="Nero Wolfe">Nero Wolfe</a> mystery series, refers to the top <i>two</i> percent: "I know a chairman of the board of a billion-dollar corporation, one of the 2 per cent, [<i>sic</i>] who never gets his shoes shined and shaves three times a week."<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first mention of the concept may very well be found in a poster (circa 1935) advertising the newspaper created by the populist Louisiana politician <a href="/wiki/Huey_Long" title="Huey Long">Huey Long</a> called The <a href="/wiki/American_Progress_(newspaper)" title="American Progress (newspaper)">American Progress</a>. The second paragraph mentioned the one percent and the ninety-nine percent: "With 1% of our people owning nearly twice as much as all the other 99%, how is a country ever to have permanent progress unless there is a correction of this evil?"<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Variations_on_the_slogan">Variations on the slogan</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=We_are_the_99%25&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Variations on the slogan"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>"We are the 1 percent; we stand with the 99 percent"</b>: by members of the "one percent" who wish to express their support for higher taxes, such as nonprofit organizations Resource Generation and Wealth for the Common Good.<sup id="cite_ref-washingtonpost_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-washingtonpost-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-thefastertimes_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thefastertimes-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>"We are the 99.9%"</b>: by Nobel Prize–winning economist <a href="/wiki/Paul_Krugman" title="Paul Krugman">Paul Krugman</a> in an <a href="/wiki/Op-ed" title="Op-ed">op-ed</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> arguing that the original slogan sets the bar too low when considering recent changes in distribution of income. In particular, Krugman cited a 2005 <a href="/wiki/Congressional_Budget_Office" title="Congressional Budget Office">Congressional Budget Office</a> report indicating that between 1979 and 2005 the inflation-adjusted income for the middle of the income distribution rose 21%, while for the top 0.1% it rose by 400%.<sup id="cite_ref-Krugman_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Krugman-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>"We are the 53%"</b>: by conservative <a href="/wiki/RedState" title="RedState">RedState</a> blogger <a href="/wiki/Erick_Erickson" title="Erick Erickson">Erick Erickson</a> along with <a href="/wiki/Josh_Trevi%C3%B1o" class="mw-redirect" title="Josh Treviño">Josh Treviño</a>, communications director for the <a href="/wiki/Texas_Public_Policy_Foundation" title="Texas Public Policy Foundation">Texas Public Policy Foundation</a>, and filmmaker <a href="/wiki/Mike_Wilson_(filmmaker)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mike Wilson (filmmaker)">Mike Wilson</a><sup id="cite_ref-washingtonpost6_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-washingtonpost6-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> launched in October 2011, in response to the 99% slogan. Erikson referred to the 53% of American workers who pay federal income taxes and criticizing the 47% of workers who do not pay federal income tax for what Erikson describes as being "subsidized" by those who pay taxes. The <a href="/wiki/Tax_Policy_Center" title="Tax Policy Center">Tax Policy Center</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Urban_Institute" title="Urban Institute">Urban Institute</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brookings_Institution" title="Brookings Institution">Brookings Institution</a> both reported that roughly half of the workers who do not pay Federal income tax earn below the tax threshold while the other half pay no income tax due to "provisions that benefit senior citizens and low-income working families with children."<sup id="cite_ref-npr_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-npr-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>"We are the 48%"</b>: by those who supported the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> remaining in the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> after the <a href="/wiki/2016_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum" title="2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum">2016 referendum on membership</a>, highlighting the relatively even split between supporters of remaining in and withdrawing from the EU.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>"We are the 87%"</b> (<a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German language</a>: <b>"Wir Sind 87 Prozent"</b>): by the German people who did not vote for the far-right <a href="/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany" title="Alternative for Germany">Alternative for Germany</a> party in the <a href="/wiki/2017_German_federal_election" title="2017 German federal election">2017 German federal election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economic_context">Economic context</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=We_are_the_99%25&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Economic context"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_United_States" title="Income inequality in the United States">Income inequality in the United States</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Occupy_Oakland_99_Percent_signs.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Occupy_Oakland_99_Percent_signs.jpg/275px-Occupy_Oakland_99_Percent_signs.jpg" decoding="async" width="275" height="183" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Occupy_Oakland_99_Percent_signs.jpg/413px-Occupy_Oakland_99_Percent_signs.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Occupy_Oakland_99_Percent_signs.jpg/550px-Occupy_Oakland_99_Percent_signs.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="683" /></a><figcaption>Occupy protesters in Oakland holding "We are the 99%"-themed signs</figcaption></figure> <p>"We are the 99%" is a <a href="/wiki/Political_slogan" class="mw-redirect" title="Political slogan">political slogan</a> and an implicit <a href="/wiki/Economics" title="Economics">economic claim</a> of <a href="/wiki/%22Occupy%22_protests" class="mw-redirect" title=""Occupy" protests">"Occupy" protesters</a>. It refers to the increased concentration of <a href="/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_United_States" title="Income inequality in the United States">income</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_United_States" title="Wealth inequality in the United States">wealth</a> since the 1970s among the top 1% of income earners in the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-AP-20140127_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AP-20140127-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It also reflects the idea that the "99%" are paying the price for the mistakes of a tiny minority within the <a href="/wiki/Upper_class" title="Upper class">upper class</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Reutersmalfeasant_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reutersmalfeasant-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-cbsprotestsspread_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cbsprotestsspread-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Studies by the <a href="/wiki/Congressional_Budget_Office" title="Congressional Budget Office">Congressional Budget Office</a> (CBO), the US <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Commerce" title="United States Department of Commerce">Department of Commerce</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Internal_Revenue_Service" title="Internal Revenue Service">Internal Revenue Service</a> show that income inequality has grown significantly since <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_(1945%E2%80%931964)" title="History of the United States (1945–1964)">the late 1970s</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-US_Census_Bureau._(2001)._Historical_Income_Tables_–_Income_Equality._30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-US_Census_Bureau._(2001)._Historical_Income_Tables_–_Income_Equality.-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Weinberg,_D._H._(June_1996)._A_Brief_Look_At_Postwar_U.S._Income_Inequality._''US_Census_Bureau''._31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Weinberg,_D._H._(June_1996)._A_Brief_Look_At_Postwar_U.S._Income_Inequality._''US_Census_Bureau''.-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CBPP_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBPP-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> after <a href="/wiki/Great_Compression" title="Great Compression">several decades of stability</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Gilbert,_D._(2002)._''The_American_Class_Structure:_In_An_Age_of_Growing_Inequality''._Belmost,_CA:_Wadsworth._35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gilbert,_D._(2002)._''The_American_Class_Structure:_In_An_Age_of_Growing_Inequality''._Belmost,_CA:_Wadsworth.-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Beeghley,_L._(2004)._''The_Structure_of_Social_Stratification_in_the_United_States''._Boston,_MA:_Pearson,_Allyn_&_Bacon._36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Beeghley,_L._(2004)._''The_Structure_of_Social_Stratification_in_the_United_States''._Boston,_MA:_Pearson,_Allyn_&_Bacon.-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Between 1979 and 2007, the top earning 1 percent of Americans have seen their after-tax-and-benefit incomes grow by an average of 275%, compared to around 40–60% for the lower 99 percent.<sup id="cite_ref-cbo_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cbo-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since 1979 the average pre-tax income for the bottom 90% of households has decreased by $900, while that of the top 1% increased by over $700,000. This imbalance became further exacerbated by changes making federal income <a href="/wiki/Progressive_tax" title="Progressive tax">taxes less progressive</a>. From 1992–2007 the top 400 income earners in the U.S. saw their income increase 392% and their average tax rate reduced by 37%.<sup id="cite_ref-Stupid_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stupid-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2009, the average income of the top 1% was $960,000 with a minimum income of $343,927.<sup id="cite_ref-CBPP_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBPP-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CNNstats_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNNstats-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-doubled_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-doubled-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2007 the top 1% had a larger share of total income than at any time since 1928.<sup id="cite_ref-CBPP_34-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBPP-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This is in stark contrast with surveys of US populations that indicate an "ideal" distribution that is much more equal, and a widespread ignorance of the true <a href="/wiki/Income_inequality" class="mw-redirect" title="Income inequality">income inequality</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wealth_inequality" class="mw-redirect" title="Wealth inequality">wealth inequality</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2007, the richest 1% of the American population owned 34.6% of the country's total wealth, and the next 19% owned 50.5%. Thus, the top 20% of Americans owned 85% of the country's wealth and the bottom 80% of the population owned 15% in 2007. Financial inequality measured as the total net worth minus the value of one's home<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was greater than inequality in total wealth, with the top 1% of the population owning 42.7%, the next 19% of Americans owning 50.3%, and the bottom 80% owning 7% per Forbes in 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-ForbesJacobs_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ForbesJacobs-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the <a href="/wiki/Great_Recession" title="Great Recession">Great Recession</a> started in 2007, the share of total wealth owned by the top 1% of the population grew from 34.6% to 37.1%, and that owned by the top 20% of Americans grew from 85% to 87.7%. Median household wealth dropped by 36.1% compared to a drop of only 11.1% for the top 1%, further widening the gap.<sup id="cite_ref-ForbesJacobs_44-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ForbesJacobs-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Domhoff_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Domhoff-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the economic expansion between 2002 and 2007, the income of the top 1% had grown 10 times faster than the income of the bottom 90% and 66% of total income gains went to the 1%. </p><p>According to the Economic Policy Institute as of 2018 (based on data preceding 1970s to 2015), all households (national) with incomes less than $421,926 belonged to the lower 99% of wage earners.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Data on the minimum yearly income to be considered among the 1% vary per source,<sup id="cite_ref-CNBC_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNBC-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> ranging from about $500,000<sup id="cite_ref-wsj_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wsj-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to $1.3 million.<sup id="cite_ref-Domhoff_46-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Domhoff-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> CEOs salaries average $10.6 million for those whose companies are in the <a href="/wiki/S%26P_500" title="S&P 500">S&P 500</a> and $19.8 million for companies in the <a href="/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average" title="Dow Jones Industrial Average">Dow Jones Industrial Average</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CNBC_48-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNBC-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:2008_Top1percentUSA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/2008_Top1percentUSA.svg/220px-2008_Top1percentUSA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="155" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/2008_Top1percentUSA.svg/330px-2008_Top1percentUSA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/2008_Top1percentUSA.svg/440px-2008_Top1percentUSA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1022" data-file-height="720" /></a><figcaption>A chart showing the disparity in income distribution in the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-CBPP_34-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBPP-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_United_States" title="Wealth inequality in the United States">Wealth inequality</a> and income inequality have been central concerns among OWS protesters.<sup id="cite_ref-CFR_Analysis_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CFR_Analysis-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-HuffPo_Income_Inequality_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HuffPo_Income_Inequality-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Globe_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Globe-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> CBO data shows that in 1980, the top 1% earned 9.1% of all income, while in 2006 they earned 18.8% of all income.<sup id="cite_ref-LATimes_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LATimes-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Following the <a href="/wiki/Late-2000s_recession" class="mw-redirect" title="Late-2000s recession">recession of the late 2000s (decade)</a>, the economy in the US continued to experience a <a href="/wiki/Jobless_recovery#Recent_employment_trends_in_the_USA" title="Jobless recovery">jobless recovery</a>. <i>New York Times</i> columnist <a href="/wiki/Anne-Marie_Slaughter" title="Anne-Marie Slaughter">Anne-Marie Slaughter</a> described pictures on the "We are the 99" website as "page after page of testimonials from members of the middle class who took out loans to pay for education, took out mortgages to buy their houses and a piece of the American dream, worked hard at the jobs they could find, and ended up unemployed or radically underemployed and on the precipice of financial and social ruin."<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimes-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With market uncertainty due to fears of a <a href="/wiki/Double-dip_recession" class="mw-redirect" title="Double-dip recession">double-dip recession</a><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/United_States_debt-ceiling_crisis_of_2011" class="mw-redirect" title="United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2011">downgrade of the US credit rating</a> in the summer of 2011, the topics of how much the rich pay in taxes<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and how to solve the nation's economic crisis dominated media commentary.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When Congress returned from break, proposed policy solutions came from both major parties as <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)_presidential_debates,_2012" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican Party (United States) presidential debates, 2012">the 2012 Republican presidential debates</a> occurred almost simultaneously with President Obama's September 9 proposal of the <a href="/wiki/American_Jobs_Act" title="American Jobs Act">American Jobs Act</a>. On September 17, 2011 President Obama announced an economic policy proposal for taxing millionaires known as the <a href="/wiki/Buffett_Rule" title="Buffett Rule">Buffett Rule</a>. This immediately led to public statements by House Speaker <a href="/wiki/John_Boehner" title="John Boehner">John Boehner</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Kuhnenn_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kuhnenn-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> President Obama,<sup id="cite_ref-Kuhnenn_59-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kuhnenn-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> Mitt Romney<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> over whether the Democrats were fomenting "<a href="/wiki/Class_conflict" title="Class conflict">class warfare</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In November 2011 economist <a href="/wiki/Paul_Krugman" title="Paul Krugman">Paul Krugman</a> wrote, that the We are the 99% slogan "correctly defines the issue as being the middle class versus the elite and also gets past the common but wrong notion that rising inequality is mainly about the well-educated doing better than the less educated." He questioned whether the slogan ought to refer to the 99.9 percent, as a large fraction of the top 1 percent's gains have actually gone to an even smaller group, the top 0.1 percent—the richest one-thousandth of the population. Krugman argued against the idea that the very rich make a special contribution to the economy as "job creators" as few were <a href="/wiki/New_Economy" class="mw-redirect" title="New Economy">new economy</a> innovators like <a href="/wiki/Steve_Jobs" title="Steve Jobs">Steve Jobs</a>. He quoted a recent analysis having found that 43% of the top 0.1 percent were executives at non-financial companies, 18% in finance, and another 12% are lawyers or in real estate. Commenting on the ongoing economic crisis he wrote, "[the] seemingly high returns before the crisis simply reflected increased risk-taking—risk that was mostly borne not by the wheeler-dealers themselves, but either by naïve investors or by taxpayers, who ended up holding the bag when it all went wrong".<sup id="cite_ref-Krugman_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Krugman-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Per an <a href="/wiki/Oxfam" title="Oxfam">Oxfam</a> report, just ahead of the 2015 <a href="/wiki/World_Economic_Forum" title="World Economic Forum">World Economic Forum</a>: "The combined wealth of the world's richest 1 percent will overtake that of everyone else by next year [2016] given the current trend of rising inequality".<sup id="cite_ref-oxfam_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oxfam-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Criticism">Criticism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=We_are_the_99%25&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Criticism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Occupy_London.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Occupy_London.jpg/275px-Occupy_London.jpg" decoding="async" width="275" height="183" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Occupy_London.jpg/413px-Occupy_London.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Occupy_London.jpg/550px-Occupy_London.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2544" data-file-height="1696" /></a><figcaption>We are the 99% protester at <a href="/wiki/Occupy_London" title="Occupy London">Occupy London</a></figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/CNBC" title="CNBC">CNBC</a> senior markets writer Jeff Cox reacted negatively to the protest movement,<sup id="cite_ref-CNBC_48-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNBC-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> calling the 1% are "the most vilified members of American society" who protesters fail to realize includes not only corporate CEOs (31% of the top earning one percent), bankers and stock traders (13.9%), but also doctors (1.85%), real estate professionals (3.2%), entertainers in arts, media and sports (1.6%), professors and scientists (1.8%), lawyers (1.22%), farmers and ranchers (0.5%), and pilots (0.2%).<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cox noted that 1 Percenters pay a disproportionate amount of their incomes to taxes, which though true, is misleading, as those in the 1% often obtain much wealth through capital gains rather than earned income.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="The source does not back up the claim (June 2022)">better source needed</span></a></i>]</sup> He stated the phenomenon of <a href="/wiki/Wealth_concentration" class="mw-redirect" title="Wealth concentration">wealth concentration</a> among a small segment of the population is a century old, and argued a direct correlation between wealth concentration and the health of the stock market, stating that 36.7% of the United States' wealth was controlled by the 1% in 1922, 44.2% when the <a href="/wiki/Wall_Street_Crash_of_1929" class="mw-redirect" title="Wall Street Crash of 1929">stock market crashed in 1929</a>, 19.9% in 1976, and has increased since then. Cox wrote that wealth concentration intensified at the same time that the US changed from a manufacturing leader to a financial services leader. Cox took issue with protesters' focus on income and wealth, and with their embrace of rich allies such as actress <a href="/wiki/Susan_Sarandon" title="Susan Sarandon">Susan Sarandon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Russell_Simmons" title="Russell Simmons">Russell Simmons</a>, who are themselves in the 1%.<sup id="cite_ref-CNBC_48-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNBC-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Josh Barro of <i><a href="/wiki/National_Review" title="National Review">National Review</a></i> offered similar arguments, asserting that the 1% includes those with incomes beginning at $593,000, which would exclude most <a href="/wiki/Wall_Street" title="Wall Street">Wall Street</a> bankers.<sup id="cite_ref-nationalreview_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nationalreview-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Economist <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Sowell" title="Thomas Sowell">Thomas Sowell</a> noted in November 2011 that IRS data shows the majority of those in the top 1% of income are there for a short period, and that age was more associated with wealth concentration than was income. Sowell further argued that analyzing data about abstract categories (like income brackets) should not be confused with analyzing data about individuals (who can move in and out of various abstract categories, like income brackets, throughout their lives): </p> <dl><dd>It is easier and cheaper to collect statistics about income brackets than it is to follow actual flesh-and-blood people as they move massively from one income bracket to another over the years.<br />More important, statistical studies that follow particular individuals over the years often reach diametrically opposite conclusions from those reached by statistical studies that follow income brackets over the years.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <p>In the US, Republicans have generally been critical of the movement accusing protesters and their supporters of class warfare. <a href="/wiki/Newt_Gingrich" title="Newt Gingrich">Newt Gingrich</a> called the "concept of the 99 and the one" both divisive and "un-American". Democrats have offered "cautious support", using the "99%" slogan to argue for the passage of President Obama's jobs act, Internet access rules, voter identification laws, mine safety, and other issues. Both parties agree that the movement has changed public debate. In December 2011, the <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times">New York Times</a></i> reported that "Whatever the long-term effects of the Occupy Movement, protesters succeeded in implanting "we are the 99 percent" ... into the cultural and political lexicon."<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="New_Continental_Congress">New Continental Congress</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=We_are_the_99%25&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: New Continental Congress"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After the Occupy movement activists' camps started getting uprooted, the Occupy movement came back online proposing a new <a href="/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" title="United States Declaration of Independence">United States Declaration of Independence</a> from corporations,<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> along with a new <a href="/wiki/Continental_Congress" title="Continental Congress">Continental Congress</a> in <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=We_are_the_99%25&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output 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title="List of Occupy movement protest locations">Protests</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Occupy_movement_in_the_United_States" title="Occupy movement in the United States">United States</a><br />(<a href="/wiki/List_of_Occupy_movement_protest_locations_in_the_United_States" title="List of Occupy movement protest locations in the United States">full list</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Occupy_movement_protest_locations_in_California" title="List of Occupy movement protest locations in California">California</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Albany (<a href="/wiki/Occupy_the_Farm" title="Occupy the Farm">Occupy the Farm</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Los_Angeles" title="Occupy Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Oakland" title="Occupy Oakland">Oakland</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2011_Oakland_general_strike" title="2011 Oakland general strike">general strike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_Occupy_Oakland" title="Timeline of Occupy Oakland">timeline</a></li></ul></li> <li>Pasadena <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Rose_Parade" title="Occupy Rose Parade">Rose Parade</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Redwood_City" title="Occupy Redwood City">Redwood City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Sacramento" title="Occupy Sacramento">Sacramento</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_San_Diego" title="Occupy San Diego">San Diego</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_San_Francisco" title="Occupy San Francisco">San Francisco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_San_Jos%C3%A9" title="Occupy San José">San José</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;">Other US cities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Ashland" title="Occupy Ashland">Ashland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Atlanta" title="Occupy Atlanta">Atlanta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Austin" title="Occupy Austin">Austin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Baltimore" title="Occupy Baltimore">Baltimore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Boston" title="Occupy Boston">Boston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Buffalo" title="Occupy Buffalo">Buffalo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Charlotte" title="Occupy Charlotte">Charlotte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Charlottesville" title="Occupy Charlottesville">Charlottesville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Chicago" title="Occupy Chicago">Chicago</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Eugene" title="Occupy Eugene">Eugene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Houston" title="Occupy Houston">Houston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Las_Vegas" title="Occupy Las Vegas">Las Vegas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Minneapolis" title="Occupy Minneapolis">Minneapolis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Nashville" title="Occupy Nashville">Nashville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Philadelphia" title="Occupy Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Pittsburgh" title="Occupy Pittsburgh">Pittsburgh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Portland" title="Occupy Portland">Portland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Providence" title="Occupy Providence">Providence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Rochester_NY" title="Occupy Rochester NY">Rochester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Salem" title="Occupy Salem">Salem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Salt_Lake_City" title="Occupy Salt Lake City">Salt Lake City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Seattle" title="Occupy Seattle">Seattle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_St._Louis" title="Occupy St. Louis">St. Louis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_D.C." title="Occupy D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street" title="Occupy Wall Street">Occupy Wall Street</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_Occupy_Wall_Street" title="Timeline of Occupy Wall Street">timeline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reactions_to_Occupy_Wall_Street" title="Reactions to Occupy Wall Street">reactions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_People%27s_Library" title="The People's Library">The People's Library</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;">Universities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Cal" title="Occupy Cal">Berkeley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Harvard" title="Occupy Harvard">Harvard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Texas_State" title="Occupy Texas State">Texas State</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Vanderbilt" title="Occupy Vanderbilt">Vanderbilt</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;">United Kingdom</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Bath" title="Occupy Bath">Bath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Edinburgh" title="Occupy Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Glasgow" title="Occupy Glasgow">Glasgow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_London" title="Occupy London">London</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Occupied_Times_of_London" title="The Occupied Times of London">The Occupied Times of London</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bank_of_Ideas" title="Bank of Ideas">Bank of Ideas</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;">Other countries</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mashtots_Park_Movement" title="Mashtots Park Movement">Armenia</a></li> <li>Australia <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Melbourne" title="Occupy Melbourne">Melbourne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Sydney" title="Occupy Sydney">Sydney</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Bahrain" class="mw-redirect" title="Occupy Bahrain">Bahrain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Buffer_Zone" title="Occupy Buffer Zone">Cyprus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Canada" title="Occupy Canada">Canada</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Ottawa" title="Occupy Ottawa">Ottawa</a></li> 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Nigeria">Nigeria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Oslo" title="Occupy Oslo">Norway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_South_Africa" title="Occupy South Africa">South Africa</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left">Events</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/15_October_2011_global_protests" title="15 October 2011 global protests">15 October 2011 global protests</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2011_Rome_demonstration" title="2011 Rome demonstration">Rome</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bank_Transfer_Day" title="Bank Transfer Day">Bank Transfer Day</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UC_Davis_pepper-spray_incident" class="mw-redirect" title="UC Davis pepper-spray incident">UC Davis pepper-spray incident</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" 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