Occupy Wall Street (and Beyond): Why the Protests? Here are the Charts.... (Business Insider)

Last week Business Insider, trying to explain the motives for the Occupy protests, published a chart-essay illustrating the extreme inequality that has developed in the US economy since the 1980s.

And for those new to the topic, here is a handy seven-slide introduction:

1. Unemployment is at the highest level since the Great Depression, with the exception of a brief blip in the early 1980s):

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