Peter Dreier at HuffPo has a cool graph showing how often the word "inequality" appeared in news coverage between October 2010 and October 2011. Guess what happens right about, oh, September 17? (Hat tip to Mother Jones).
Has Occupy Wall Street Affected Anything?
It might have changed the conversation, at least a bit.
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