"8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will"

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 3, 2014

This segment originally aired live on December 3, 2014. An edited version was included in a best-of episode of The Brian Lehrer Show on December 31, 2015. The unedited audio can be found here.

A work week wasn't always 40 hours long. Elise Gould, Senior Economist and Director of Health Policy Research at the Economic Policy Institute, explains how it got to be that way, the intersection of time and labor, and why more people are working part-time. 

The average day for an American worker in 2013, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
(American Time Use Survey/Bureau of Labor Statistics)

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