{"id":661154,"date":"2013-05-30T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=733ff5fd92ae4d6399583019f256d6e5"},"modified":"2013-05-22T11:28:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T15:28:08","slug":"why-the-u-s-poor-have-the-same-length-workday-as-the-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/661154","title":{"rendered":"Why the U.S. Poor Have the Same Length Workday as the Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1890, the poorest 10% of male U.S. workers labored an average of <strong>10.99 hours<\/strong> per day, while the richest worked <strong>8.95 hours<\/strong>. A century later, the poorest&#8217;s hours had dropped to <strong>8.83 hours<\/strong> a day, while the richest&#8217;s hours had barely budged, say Diego Restuccia of the University of Toronto and Guillaume Vandenbroucke of the University of Southern California. Over the course of 100 years, the poorest&#8217;s productivity rose dramatically, and their resulting higher hourly earnings allowed them to spend less time working and more time going to school, the researchers say.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.harvardbusiness.org\/~ff\/harvardbusiness?a=sbImvVh-53U:rDkpMFOQg90:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/harvardbusiness?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.harvardbusiness.org\/~ff\/harvardbusiness?a=sbImvVh-53U:rDkpMFOQg90:bcOpcFrp8Mo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/harvardbusiness?d=bcOpcFrp8Mo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/harvardbusiness\/~4\/sbImvVh-53U\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1890, the poorest 10% of male U.S. workers labored an average of 10.99 hours per day, while the richest worked 8.95 hours. A century later, the poorest&#8217;s hours had dropped to 8.83 hours a day, while the richest&#8217;s hours had barely budged, say Diego Restuccia of the University of Toronto and Guillaume Vandenbroucke of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}