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It's tempting, particularly for Democrats, to compare the Occupy Wall Street movement to the Tea Party. Supporters of both hate the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and have no chosen leader â€" and that's pretty much where the similarities end. This grassroots effort is likely to continue, with protests moving to warmer climes as the cold sets in in lower Manhattan. And a new report published today shows median income dropped nearly 10 percent since the start of the recession in the summer of 2007, and dropping more sharply after the recession officially ended in 2009 than during the recession itself.

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