How Americans Spend Their Day...

Which Americans? While the NY Times presents a nifty little interactive table showing how Americans spend their day, they don't specify where polling took place. While likely a random poll, the vast socio-economic differences across the US make me skeptical... although the results seem fairly typical.

At 9 p.m., nearly two-fifths of people are in front of the television. But at almost any hour of the day, a larger share of unemployed people are watching television or movies.

Only one in six unemployed people looks for work on an average day. Those who do spend about three hours on activities like filling out applications or researching jobs.

For every hour Americans over age 15 spend in class for a degree, they spend about 35 minutes on homework.