Alas, Free Time Comes At A Price

Busy as they are, working people find time to lament how little free time they have. At times, they even claim they’d be willing to accept a lower income in exchange for greater leisure. How seriously do they mean it? A survey commissioned by the Center for a New American Dream detects very mixed feelings. In one part of the poll, 23 percent of respondents agreed “strongly” and 30 percent “somewhat” that they’d be “willing to give up one day’s pay per week in exchange for one day off per week to spend more time with family and friends.”