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More and more, Americans are forced to work more than 40 hours a week, with little room for negotiation. This is true at both the bottom and top of the food chain. The only place where it isn't is the middle, where the government and union jobs lie. Lower-wage workers have to work overtime just to feed their families, and professionals have to work overtime if they don't want to kill their future career prospects.

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This is a canard repeated by certain politicians trying to scare people into voting for them. Americans are statistically working less than ever before and making more money.

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This is clearly not true. If you have some sort of evidence of this, please share it.

Fifty years ago, most women worked zero hours a week, and about half of men had union jobs. Now, most people of both sexes work full time jobs, and I have seen no evidence that the vacation time or average hours/per worked have gone down.

Also, I hear almost no politicians campaigning for a shorter work week or longer vacation periods in this country.