{"id":5528,"date":"2016-01-04T22:26:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T22:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/?p=5528"},"modified":"2016-07-06T02:31:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T02:31:02","slug":"good-news-bernie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2016\/01\/good-news-bernie\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News, Bernie Sanders: Average Workweeks Are Getting Shorter – Article by Chelsea Follett"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"The<\/a>Chelsea Follett<\/span>
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Capitalism is letting people choose more leisure<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Senator Bernie Sanders recently tweeted<\/a> the following:<\/p>\n

\"sanders.tweet\"<\/a>Fortunately, the gruelingly long workweek described by Sanders is not the norm. In fact, leisure time has been on the rise<\/a>. In 1950, an average U.S. worker worked 1,984 hours a year, or about 38 hours a week. In 2015, an average American worker worked 1,767 hours, or about 34 hours a week.<\/p>\n

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That means that the average U.S. worker had 217 more hours for leisure or other pursuits in 2015 than in 1950. That is about 9 days of extra time.<\/p>\n

The 50-hour workweek described by Sanders is more common in China, where the average worker worked 2,432 hours in 2015, or around 47 hours a week.<\/p>\n

This post first appeared at HumanProgress.org<\/a>.
\nCompare other countries<\/a>\u00a0over time with\u00a0their\u00a0interactive dataset.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Chelsea Follett (Chelsea German) works at the Cato Institute as a\u00a0Researcher and Managing Editor of HumanProgress.org.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This article was published by The Foundation for Economic Education <\/a>and may be freely distributed, subject to a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License<\/a>, which requires that credit be given to the author.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chelsea Follett ****************************** Capitalism is letting people choose more leisure Senator Bernie Sanders recently tweeted the following: Fortunately, the gruelingly long workweek described by Sanders is not the norm. In fact, leisure time has been on the rise. In 1950, an average U.S. worker worked 1,984 hours a year, or about 38 hours a week. In 2015, an average American worker worked 1,767 hours, or about 34 hours a week. That means that the average U.S. worker had 217 more…<\/p>\n

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