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Derek Thompson - Derek Thompson is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he oversees business coverage for the website.
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He is a visiting research fellow at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget at the New America Foundation. Derek has also written for Slate, BusinessWeek, and the Daily Beast. He has appeared as a guest on radio and television networks, including NPR, the BBC, CNBC, and MSNBC.
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Where the Top 1% Work

By Derek Thompson

Oct 11 2011, 11:46 AM ET Comment

Who are the 1 percent? Mother Jones' Dave Gilson asks. And he answers with two charts. The first comes from a 2005 research paper, so the share held by financial workers might have shifted in the last six years.

Are you surprised that only 1 in 7 works in finance? Or that there are twice as many 1-percenters working in medicine than law? I was.



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