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American workforce: 31% feel their job could be done outside U.S.
- When asked whether each of eight different aspects of work life have gotten better, worse or remained the same for the typical American worker over the past 20 or 30 years, a majority or plurality of respondents in the Pew survey answered worse to all eight questions.
- Nearly nine-in-ten employed adults in this survey say they are either completely (28%) or mostly (61%) satisfied with their own jobs
- Since 1989, the number of workers ages 50 and older who report feeling completely satisfied with their job has fallen to 30% now, from 43% in a 1989 Gallup Poll.
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Date: 8/30/2006
Researchers Find Increased "After School" Stress for Parents When Children are Left Alone
Working parents of school age children often worry about what their children are doing after school in the hours before parents get home from work. And the time is significant:
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“For most full time employed parents, the gap between the end of the school day and the time they arrive home from work is [about] 20-25 hours per week” (Barnett & Gareis, 2006, p. 101), or 4 to 5 hours a day.
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Researchers have found that 44% of 12 year olds were in self-care after school.
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Over one-third (36%) of target children participated in a formal after school program for an average of 11 hours a week.
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One-fifth (21.5%) spent some time unsupervised after school each week, averaging around 10 hours alone or watching younger siblings.
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Date: 8/27/2006
Cyber Journalist.Net studies the relationship between Television and Newspaper
- More than four-fifths, 82.4 percent, of the responding news directors say their partner's logo appears on their television newscast at least weekly.
- By comparison, only 28 percent of newspaper editors in the previous study said that their partner's logo appeared in the news columns of their newspaper at least weekly.
- Almost a quarter of editors, 23.4 percent versus 7.9 percent of news directors, said their partner's logo never appears in their news columns or broadcasts.
- A majority of television stations and newspapers, 62.3 percent and 70.1 percent respectively do not spend time during their news meetings discussing how to promote their partner's content.
- 20.2 percent of the television stations and 13 percent of the newspapers devote time to such activities at least once a week
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Date: 8/25/2006
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