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Work Trends

A Work-Filled Retirement: Workers’ Changing Views on Employment and Leisure-Full Report

2005-08-16

A new national Work Trends survey finds that nearly 7 in 10 American workers plan to continue to work full- or part-time for pay following retirement from their main job. Another 14% plan to work as volunteers, while only 13% expect to stop working entirely. The report, based on a poll of 800 American workers conducted between May and mid-June 2005, also finds that older workers believe they are treated unfairly by employers, and also raises workers’ concerns about the financial soundness of Social Security and Medicare.

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A Work-Filled Retirement: Workers’ Changing Views on Employment and Leisure-Full Report

A Workplace Divided: How Americans View Discrimination and Race on the Job

2002-01-07

In this Work Trends survey, American workers express their views on the contentious issue of discrimination in the workplace -- how they perceive and experience discrimination as well as what they expect government and employers to do about it.

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A Workplace Divided

Americans' Attitudes About Work, Employers, and the Government

1998-09-01

This first in the Work Trends survey series describes worker attitudes about the jobs and the economic prospects for themselves and their nation during the late 1990s.

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American Attitudes

At a Crossroads: American Workers Assess Jobs and Economic Security Amid the Race for President

2004-10-27

New national Work Trends study finds high level of concern about job security, economy, and that citizens are divided on candidates’ ability to address their concerns.

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At a Crossroads Report

Healthy at Work? Unequal Access to Employer Wellness Programs

2009-05-06

Reports findings from a March 2009 survey of American workers' views and opinions on employer-provided wellness programs.

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Healthy at Work? Unequal Access to Employer Wellness Programs

Holding On: Americans Assess a Changing Economic Landscape

2001-05-24

This survey analyzes worker opinion in the first months following the dramatic slowdown of the post-boom U.S. economy. Workers express their views on job satisfaction, job security, the meaning of economic indicators, job prospects, and the economic plan of the Bush Administration.

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Holding On

Laid Off: American Workers and Employers Assess a Volatile Labor Market

2004-04-22

This Work Trends survey shows that despite economic growth, worker concern for the economy, their job security, and the threat of terrorism is increasing; workers and employers express fear about outsourcing jobs abroad.

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Laid Off

Making the Grade: What American Workers Think Should Be Done to Improve Education

2000-06-14

In this Work Trends survey, working Americans express their views on how well their schools and colleges are performing, what changes would improve the education students receive, and who is responsible for ensuring that students learn the skills they need to succeed at work.

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Making the Grade

Nothing But Net: American Workers and the Information Economy

2000-01-28

Explores the implications of the information economy for American workers, including worker experience with computers, perceptions about their future in the information economy, and the role of government in how technology affects jobs and prosperity in the information age.

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Nothing But Net

Restricted Access: Work Trends Survey of Employers About People with Disabilities

2003-03-27

This survey charts the views of employers regarding workers with disabilities and the barriers they face to employment.

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Restricted Access

Second Wind: Workers, Retirement, and Social Security

2000-09-28

American workers express their views about retirement in the new economy, achieving balance between work and leisure in retirement, financial planning, and the role of government and employers in providing for a secure retirement.

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Second Wind

Standing on Shaky Ground: Employers Sharply Concerned About Terrorism

2002-02-20

This survey and report explores the implications of the recession economy and recent terrorist-related events for the nation's employers.

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Shaky Ground

Taking Stock of Retirement: How Workers and Employers Assess Pensions, Trust, and the Economy

2002-05-15

This survey polls workers and employers regarding their views on corporate scandals and the collapse of Enron, the impact of these events on trust in the workplace, and policy strategies needed to increase pension and retirement security.

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Taking Stock of Retirement

The Anguish of Unemployment

2009-09-03

This report, released in September 20009, details the findings of a comprehensive national survey conducted among 1,200 Americans nationwide who have been unemployed and looking for a job in the past 12 months. It provides an in-depth portrait of the social and economic experiences of unemployed Americans as they are occurring now.

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Work Trends: The Anguish of Unemployment

The Anxious American Worker: Work Trends Survey

2008-08-27

Reports findings from a 2008 Work Trends survey of 1,000 Americans, which reveals that many American workers fear that their jobs will move to another country, feel undervalued and underpaid, and worry that they may never be able to retire. The survey results also paint a troubling picture of economic and job insecurity, framed by worry and uncertainty over what the future holds.

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The Anxious American Worker: Work Trends Survey

The Disposable Worker: Living in a Job-Loss Economy

2003-07-28

This important survey finds many U.S. workers have experienced job loss and the pinch of economic uncertainty during the 2000-2003 recession. The survey includes a large sample of workers who lost their jobs. The survey shows that many workers were laid off without any advance notice, severance pay, health care coverage, or career counseling. However, large numbers of workers believe these services and benefits are critical to their economic survival. Worker confidence in the U.S. economy and political leadership were at the lowest levels recorded in the history of the then six-year Work Trends series.

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The Disposable Worker

The Distressed American Worker: Fears of Permanent Job Loss Soar - Appendix and Methodology

2009-04-14

Provides information on the methodology utilized to conduct the survey for this National Works Trends report.

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WT Distressed Worker Appendix and Methodology

The Distressed American Worker: Fears of Permanent Job Loss Soar

2009-04-14

Reports findings from a 2009 Heldrich Center survey on the distress being experienced by American workers amid the economic downturn. The report expresses the views of 700 workers who were surveyed and finds that many have a bleak outlook of the present and future state of the economy and labor market.

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The Distressed American Worker: Fears of Permanent Job Loss Soar

The No Confidence Economy

2009-11-23

This survey, conducted in November 2009, finds that American workers lack confidence in the job market and rapid recovery, have doubts about more stimulus spending and President Obama’s management of the economy, and that a sharp decline in holiday spending is expected.

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The No Confidence Economy (Revised)

Who Will Let the Good Times Roll? A National Survey on Jobs, the Economy, and the Race for President

1999-09-02

This survey and report contains the views and perceptions of American workers regarding the views of the Presidential candidates in the year 2000 on economic and job issues. Workers rate the Presidential candidates on a range of topics.

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Good Times

Work and Family

1999-03-18

This survey offers in-depth analysis of workers' ability to balance work and family, the policies made available by employers to help their employees achieve this balance, and workers' attitudes about the policies designed to address the need to balance work and family.

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Work and Family

Working Hard But Staying Poor: A National Survey of the Working Poor and Unemployed

1999-07-22

The first survey to poll America's working poor and unemployed on a broad range of economic and workplace questions finds that despite widespread national economic optimism, the boom left many Americans behind. Detailed report on perceptions of working poor on jobs, policy, education, and poverty.

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Working Hard

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