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Most Americans are unhappy at work. Hereâs how to change that A new study says that 70 percent of Americans are unhappy at work. Here are some ideas about what employers can do to fix that. A new study says that 70 percent of Americans are unhappy at work. Here are some ideas about what employers can do to fix that. Chances are you’re unhappy with your job. A new report from Gallup found that 70 percent of Americans report feeling unhappy, uninspired and less engaged in their job. This has led American workers to be less productive, costing the United States anywhere from $450 to $550 billion a year, the report said.
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Alcoholism Depression affects approximately 19 million Americans, or 9.5% of the population in any given one-year period. At some point in their lives, 10%-25% of women and 5%-12% of men will likely become clinically depressed. In fact, it affects so many people that it is often referred to as the common cold of mental illness.
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Strong Jobs Report Could Mean Bad News For Unemployment Benefits Posted: 12/06/2013 9:38 am EST Updated: 12/06/2013 5:12 pm EST. WASHINGTON -- The good news that the U.S. unemployment rate fell to 7 percent in November could be bad news for more than a million of the long-term unemployed whose federal benefits are scheduled to expire at the end of the month.ut the declining unemployment rate masks a lot of bad news in the Bureau of Labor Statistics employment data. There are still more people than ever who have been unemployed six months or longer.
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Just three in 10 people feel 'happy with their lives' The study found that 69 per cent of people feel trapped in the same old routine and over 40 per cent are unhappy with their lives Photo: Alamy. By Agency. 11:19AM GMT 22 Jan 2015. Just three in 10 people in Britain are happy with their lives, a new study has revealed. Money worries, dead-end relationships and unfulfilling jobs were among the reasons many said they are unhappy.
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Beyond Distrust: How Americans View Their Government The share of Republicans and Republican leaners saying they are angry with the government is not as high as in October 2013 (32% now, 38% then). Nonetheless, Republicans are nearly three times as likely as Democrats (12%) to say they are angry with the government.
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Americansâ Concern About Climate Change Is Growing And yet the number of Americans concerned about global warming is lower than the most recent peak reached in 2000. At that time, about 72 percent of people reported concerns, according to the poll. However, by 2004 only 51 percent were worried about climate change. That’s not surprising, either. Public opinion is ephemeral and many factors can influence how people respond to polls.
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- It is frequently reported that the divorce rate in America is 50%. This data is not accurately correct, however, it is reasonably close to an actual fact. The Americans for Divorce Reform estimates that probably, 40 or possibly even 50 percent of marriages will end in divorce if current trends continue.
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Trump's disapproval rating nears 60 percent in new polls In that poll, Mr. Trump's disapproval rating stood at 53 percent, while his approval rating was 41 percent. For comparison's sake, the latest CBS News poll, released last month, found that 57 percent of Americans disapprove of the job Mr. Trump is doing as president, while 36 percent approve. The Economist poll also examined how Americans are responding to the president's prolific (and often controversial) use of social media.
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Presenteeism: At WorkâBut Out of It Two articles in the Journal of the American Medical Association last year reported that depression set U.S. employers back some $35 billion a year in reduced performance at work and that pain conditions such as arthritis, headaches, and back problems cost nearly $47 billion.sing the same methodology employed to gauge the costs of depression and pain—a yearlong telephone survey of 29,000 working adults, dubbed the American Productivity Audit—Stewart’s research team calculated the total cost of presenteeism in the United States to be more than $150 billion per year.
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HHS: Record Number Of Americans On Welfare Based on Census Bureau data, the number of Americans on welfare in the fourth quarter of 2011 totaled 108,592,000, adding up to 35.4 percent of Americans.
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Gallup: 70% of Workforce âNot Engaged,â Costs Billions in Lost Productivity Gallup: 70% of Workforce ‘Not Engaged,’ Costs Billions in Lost Productivity. According to a report from Gallup 70% of American workers are either not-engaged or actively disengaged, which means they’re disruptive and undermining workplace productivity. And here’s a related stat: “Gallup estimates that actively disengaged employees cost the US $450 billion to $550 billion in lost productivity per year.”.
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How Many in U.S. Are Depressed? Sept. 30, 2010 -- The CDC says that about 9% of Americans report they are depressed at least occasionally, and 3.4% suffer from major depression. The 9% are people who reported to surveyors that they felt depressed to some degree in the two weeks prior to being questioned.
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Trust in Government Nears Record Low, But Most Federal Agencies Are Viewed Favorably The share of the public saying they are angry at the federal government, which equaled an all-time high in late September (26%), has ticked up to 30%. Another 55% say they are frustrated with the government. Just 12% say they are basically content with the federal government. Despite highly negative views of the federal government overall, the public has favorable views of many of its agencies and departments, which were closed by the shutdown. Majorities have favorable opinions of 12 of 13 agencies tested – with the IRS the lone exception (44% favorable).
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- Millions of unemployed Americans who have lost their jobs are in Athy's shoes. While 13.2 million people were unemployed in March, approximately 5.8 million were collecting unemployment benefits at the end of the month, double the number from a year ago, the government said Thursday.
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80% Hate Their Jobs -- But Should You Choose A Passion Or A Paycheck? Most people -- 80% according to Deloitte’s Shift Index survey -- are dissatisfied with their jobs. While some unhappy employees muster up the courage to change careers, others opt to grin and bear it.
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- CNS News: By this measure, according to the report, 23.1 percent of Americans were recipients of welfare in 2011. Since 1993, the earliest year covered by the report, that is the highest percentage of Americans reported to be receiving welfare.
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- US Department of Labor. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 2016, 6.5% of families included an unemployed person, down from 6.9% in 2015. In 2016, 6.5 percent of families included an unemployed person, down from 6.9 percent in 2015. Of the nation's 82.1 million families, 80.4 percent had at least one employed member in 2016.
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In Choosing a Job, Focus on the Fun I have found that one big reason people are unhappy at work is that when they choose a job or a project, they are not aware of what will truly matter to them once they are in the midst of it. People send résumés and go to interviews thinking that they care only about salaries and promotions.
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Stats and Facts About Depression in America But according to a 2010 study by the CDC, African-Americans have the highest rate of current depression (12.8 percent), followed by Hispanics (11.4 percent), and whites (7.9 percent). The average age for a person to be diagnosed with depression is 32.
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- With over 70 percent of voters saying that they disapprove of the job Congress is doing, it’s not surprising that many of them are itching to “throw out the bums,” as GOP Sen. Jim DeMint put it on NBC's TODAY Show this morning.
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Stats and Facts About Depression in America Research published in The American Journal of Psychiatry found that major depression rates for American adults increased from 3.33 percent to 7.06 percent from 1991 through 2002. Depression is also considered a worldwide epidemic, with 5 percent of the global population suffering from the condition, according to the World Health Organization. Depression Comes in Different Forms
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- Percentage of employable people actively seeking work, out of the total number of employable people; determined in a monthly survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (website: www.bls.gov). An unemployment rate of about 4% - 6% is considered healthy. Lower rates are seen as inflationary due to the upward pressure on salaries; higher rates threaten a decrease in consumer spending.
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- In the past decade, Burmese have been the largest group of refugees resettled to the United States with 148,957 (or 24 percent) of the 622,169 resettled since 2006. The next two groups are Iraqis (125,970, or 20 percent) and Bhutanese (84,547, or 14 percent). Figure 3.
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40 percent of unemployed have quit looking for jobs 40 percent of unemployed have quit looking for jobs. At a time when 8.5 million Americans still don't have jobs, some 40 percent have given up even looking. The revelation, contained in a new survey Wednesday showing how much work needs to be done yet in the U.S. labor market, comes as the labor force participation rate remains mired near 37-year lows.
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- President Trump Boasts Of 45 Percent Approval - White House, US - The same poll the president cited shows that 51 percent of Americans — a majority — disapprove of his job performance. Toggle navigation
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What is Seasonal Depression? How common is seasonal affective disorder? Approximately half a million people in the United States suffer from winter SAD, while 10 to 20 percent may suffer from a more mild form of winter blues. Three-quarters of the sufferers are women, and the depression usually starts in early adulthood.