Occupy Wall Street’s lasting effect: rich vs. poor increasingly tense issue
Here’s one sign that the Occupy Wall Street movement might be having a lasting effect on the American public:
Americans believe that the greatest source of tension in the U.S. is now the conflict between the rich and poor, taking the top spot from immigration issues, a new Pew survey is reporting.
Two-thirds of respondents surveyed last month think there are “very strong” or “strong” conflicts between the wealthy and the poor in the country. That’s an increase of 19 percentage points from those who answered the same question two years ago.
The New York Times spoke to Richard Morin, a senior editor at Pew Social & Demographic Trends, where the survey was conducted, who offered two apt pull quotes: “income inequality is no longer just for economists” and “it has moved off the business pages into the front page.”
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