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Source: Huffington Post

December 5, 2013

NPR's Robert Siegel Needs a Reality Check

by Peter Dreier

Most of the workers who occupy Wall Street on a daily basis can't make ends meet. But neither can their $22,000-a-year counterparts in any other part of the country.