{"id":1322,"date":"2004-09-06T11:43:22","date_gmt":"2004-09-06T18:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/working-harder-and-enjoying-it-less\/"},"modified":"2004-09-06T11:43:22","modified_gmt":"2004-09-06T18:43:22","slug":"working-harder-and-enjoying-it-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/working-harder-and-enjoying-it-less\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Working harder and enjoying it less&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Top Stories -The Olympian\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theolympian.com\/home\/news\/20040906\/topstories\/138479.shtml\">Flat wages, spotty job market greet workers for Labor Day<\/a> by LEIGH STROPE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS <\/p>\n<p>A spotty job market and stagnant paychecks cloud this Labor Day holiday for many workers, highlighting the importance of pocketbook issues in the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Working harder and enjoying it less,&#8221; said economist Ken Mayland, president of ClearView Economics, summing up the state of working America. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Nearly two-thirds of 1,050 full-time workers in a Labor Day survey by Harris Interactive and Kronos Inc. said they have increased job responsibilities in the past six months. One-third said they were working longer hours and 62 percent claimed they had not received a pay raise.<\/p>\n<p>In a poll conducted for the AP by Ipsos-Public Affairs, a third of respondents said they were dissatisfied with the amount of stress at work. Other leading complaints included advancement opportunities and health and retirement benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flat wages, spotty job market greet workers for Labor Day by LEIGH STROPE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A spotty job market and stagnant paychecks cloud this Labor Day holiday for many workers, highlighting the importance of pocketbook issues in the presidential election. &#8220;Working harder and enjoying it less,&#8221; said economist Ken Mayland, president of ClearView Economics, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/working-harder-and-enjoying-it-less\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Working harder and enjoying it less&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}