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Americans are the Most Pointlessly Overworked People in the World
If there's anything most presidential candidates can agree on, it's that Americans are generally "hardworking." It's a nearly constant point of positive reference. But are we working too much? Over at Demos, Matt Bruenig came up with a clever way of thinking about this. In general, as countries become richer and more productive, they work less and less, since they can produce more with the same effort.
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Should Americans Work More? Absolutely Not.
Josh Barro has a piece at Upshot about increasing work hours. In it, he plays the irritating game of describing certain institutional choices that help to determine how many hours people work as "distortions" and wrongly downplays the degree to which the US truly is a bizarrely overworked country. -
Should Americans Work More? To Hit 4 Percent Growth, We Would Have To
It wouldn’t be unthinkable for Americans to work more. While the average American workweek is already longer than in most high-income countries, the Irish and the South Koreans show it’s possible for an advanced country’s workers to put in more hours than we do.
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It's just horrific..And some have to work two jobs and are on public assistance cause they can't make enough money to live on.