Jeb Bush: Americans Need to Work Longer Hours

598 views · Published 11 July 2015 · 3:52 · Indexed 22 October 2026

Channel: The Humanist Report · 2015 · News & Politics

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Jeb Bush recently said that the only way to fix our economy is to have Americans work longer hours. The only problem with his statement is that Americans are already working hard; more than anywhere else in the industrialized world.

Sources:

Main Story: 
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jeb-bush-people-work-longer-hours/story?id=32313997

Jeb Bush Backpedals:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/08/jeb-bush-longer-hours_n_7758294.html

Statistics on How Hard Americans Already Work:
http://20somethingfinance.com/american-hours-worked-productivity-vacation/
http://www.gallup.com/poll/175286/hour-workweek-actually-longer-seven-hours.aspx

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