昨天美国人口统计局(Census Bureau)发布2015年度“市民收入和贫困报告”(Income and Poverty in the United States: 2015),近来人心惶惶,生计成了当前的议题,尽管全国经济大抵稳定,但参差不齐的发展成了反对派攻击当局、体制的强有力的理由,在这样的环境下,此报告是对国家民生的一个关键的衡量,是大家等待已久的消息。
“This is a big deal,” President Barack Obama said at a campaign stop for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in Philadelphia. “More Americans are working, more have health insurance. Incomes are rising. Poverty is falling.”
In the 2000s, employment rates for young men with less than a four-year degree dropped sharply – more than in any other group. We have determined that, in general, they are not going back to school or switching careers, so what are they doing with their time? The hours that they are not working have been replaced almost one for one with leisure time. Seventy-five percent of this new leisure time falls into one category: video games.