Infographic who is occupy wall street

Leaders who are shaping the future of business in creative ways. New workplaces, new food sources, new medicine--even an entirely new economic system. The leaderless, anarchic, revolutionary revolution, Occupy Wall Street, continues to evolve. Offshoot Occupy Oakland , for example, is expected to get support from organized labor and established advocacy groups for a massive planned demonstration Wednesday. And now a new study, shared exclusively with Fast Company , offers insight into participants.

They span age and income groups, are largely apolitical, and are mostly white. They are also getting more active. See full-size infographic below. But occupywallst. Between September 18 and October 28, the site received 4. Business intelligence analyst Harrison Schultz, who helped develop occupywallst. Cordero-Guzman from the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College, have been surveying visitors to get a sense of who supports the movement. Their initial poll of 1, people on October 5 first reported by Fast Company challenged the stereotypes of supporters as mostly students, the unemployed, and Democrats.

But it confirmed that the vast majority are white. Fast Company received exclusive access to the latest survey of 5, visitors from October What did change? Participation in actual protests. In the Oct. According to a Pew Research Center poll the week of Oct. In addition, that same poll showed that 39 percent of Americans followed news about the U. The same upward trend in interested was found in both Democrats and Republicans in that poll, with 21 percent of Republicans reporting they followed news about the protests very closely, up from 12 percent the previous week.

Among Democrats, 27 percent said the same, compared with 17 percent the week earlier. In addition to pure interest, the public seems to be responding positively to the movement, according to a recent Gallup poll, a response that makes sense, wrote the president of the Pew Research Center, Andrew Kohut, in a New York Times article.

Over the past two decades we have found a very large majority of respondents agreeing with the statement that 'this is a country in which the rich get richer and the poor get poorer,' he wrote, adding that the idea of a nation divided into "haves" and "have nots" has been around since the late s. Second, he wrote, the public has come to see the government as providing more for the rich than any other constituency.