From BusinessWeek.
We will be discussing the concept of representation soon and try to figure out how a Congress that does not have the same breakdown as the US as a whole can purport to represent it. Almost 1/3rd of the members are lawyers, and just over 20% are women. How does that influence what it does?
The chart does not show how many are millionaires, but as a percentage, it is substantively more than the general population. How does that impact the decisions they make?
