(Graphic: Lam Thuy Vo | NPR. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics)
(Graphic: Lam Thuy Vo | NPR. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics)

Welcome to the working week

August 31, 2015  |  Flatland  |  1 min read

(Graphic: Lam Thuy Vo | NPR. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics)

(Graphic: Lam Thuy Vo | NPR. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics)

Using figures from the American Time Use Survey, NPR’s Lam Thuy Vo created this graphic and story What Americans Actually Do all Day Long, In 2 Graphics in 2012. Has much changed for any of us?

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