Forum Post: OWS Media Win: Economic Downturn Took a Detour at Capitol Hill
Posted 12 years ago on Dec. 27, 2011, 12:22 a.m. EST by anonwolf
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Largely insulated from the country’s economic downturn since 2008, members of Congress — many of them among the “1 percenters” denounced by Occupy Wall Street protesters — have gotten much richer even as most of the country has become much poorer in the last six years, according to an analysis by The New York Times based on data from the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit research group.
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