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- The long wake of the recession has exposed an American economy that has been restructured over the last three decades. As a result, many jobs that once made it possible to reach the middle class are less reliable.
www.nbcnews.com/feature/in-plain-sight/middle-class-betrayal-why-working-hard-no-longer-enough-america-n291741Middle-Class Betrayal? Why Working Hard Is No Longer Enough ...
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Mar 16, 2015 · Millions of Americans are finding that the job paths they assumed would lead them to middle-class lives no longer promise economic stability.
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May 29, 2021 · Americans on average labor for fewer hours than their grandparents, but they still work nearly 40 hours per week — and many take pride in working the longer hours the W.H.O. considers...
Jun 24, 2024 · Nearly one in five have altered their livelihood, 17% have retired, 19% have transitioned to homemaker, and 14% are now working part-time. Almost a quarter (24%) say government aid packages during the pandemic have incentivized them to not actively look for work.
Aug 6, 2021 · But we estimate that at least 27 million U.S. workers don’t earn enough to hit that very low threshold of $30,000, based on the latest occupation wage data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a...
Dec 15, 2021 · Last month, there were 3.6 million more Americans who had left the labor force and said they didn’t want a job compared with November 2019, says Aaron Sojourner, a labor economist and professor ...
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Oct 7, 2022 · The economics behind 'quiet quitting' — and what we should call it instead. The result: This year, productivity — the measure of how much stuff companies produce for each hour we work — has seen...
Apr 5, 2023 · These downgraded work conditions explain why WSJ found older Americans are more likely to value hard work than younger ones — a stunning gap of 14 percentage points.