Occupy Effect: Searches For “Income Inequality” At All Time High

Americans are clamoring for knowledge about income inequality, according to statistics from Google. Google Trends, a service from the search engine that catalogs the popularity of searches, shows that Americans are searching for information on “income inequality” at an all time high. The following graph illustrates the data:

Searches have spiked since the Occupy Wall Street movement begun, and the language of income inequality has been adopted across the political spectrum. President Obama’s speech on Tuesday was largely about income inequality, and what he characterized as Republican failure to address the issue.