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The Occupy Wall Street protest made labor leaders and some Democratic pols into both winners and losers this week — winners because the movement gave them a spotlight, and losers because they utterly failed to lead on America’s economic insecurity issues until a bunch of funny-haircut kids did their organizing for them. Let’s ignore their chants for a moment and focus on the rest of this week’s Winners & Losers:

New York State was on the fast-track to implementing health care reform, but now key legislation is stalling in the State Senate.VIDEO

Here’s our scientific assessment of who’s up and who’s down this week.