{"id":5463,"date":"2015-08-10T08:53:42","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T13:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=5463"},"modified":"2015-10-13T13:13:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T18:13:44","slug":"more-than-9-to-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2015\/08\/10\/more-than-9-to-5\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 9 to 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5464\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5464\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/b4HREV\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5464\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/08\/6605683853_baf14ebe3b_z.jpg\" alt=\"Simon Dufour-Loriolle \/\/ Flickr CC\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/08\/6605683853_baf14ebe3b_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/08\/6605683853_baf14ebe3b_z-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5464\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Simon Dufour-Loriolle \/\/ Flickr CC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Approximately 5% of Americans currently work multiple jobs, likely just to make ends meet. However, recent data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics finds that this percentage is nearly twice as high in Midwest states, with anywhere from 8.7% of South Dakotans to 6.9% of Idahoans working multiple jobs. Economists have proposed a number of theories to explain this trend, everything from the region\u2019s relatively low wages to the Midwest\u2019s strong work ethic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ruralfutures.nebraska.edu\/randolph-cantrell\/\">Randolph Cantrell<\/a>, a rural sociologist at the <a href=\"http:\/\/ruralfutures.nebraska.edu\/\">University of Nebraska at Omaha\u2019s Rural Futures Institute<\/a>, recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omaha.com\/money\/meet-some-of-the-midlanders-who-work-more-than-one\/article_591900a0-5761-5d4a-a574-c3a42726162a.html\">told Omaha\u2019s <em>World-Herald<\/em><\/a> that the type of labor common in the Midwest could partially explain this trend. \u201cIn rural areas there are not a lot of established businesses to provide services, but there are people who know how to do things,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you grow up in a rural community, you learn to work with machines, animals. You can fix a car, fix a tractor&#8212;those are transferable skills.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The article also highlights another interesting trend: those with some college education are more likely to work multiple jobs than those with a high school diploma, suggesting that the higher wages associated with college education provide even further incentive to pick up extra work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Approximately 5% of Americans currently work multiple jobs, likely just to make ends meet. However, recent data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics finds that this percentage is nearly twice as high in Midwest states, with anywhere from 8.7% of South Dakotans to 6.9% of Idahoans working multiple jobs. Economists have proposed a number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2025,"featured_media":5464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gender","category-inequality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/08\/6605683853_baf14ebe3b_z.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2025"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5465,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5463\/revisions\/5465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}