Underemployed Americans' Wellbeing Continues to Suffer

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http://www.gallup.com/poll/147962/Underemployed-Americans-Wellbeing-Continues-Suffer.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=Underemployment

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Less than half of underemployed Americans (45%) rate their lives well enough to be considered "thriving." This compares with 60% of those who are employed who are thriving. The underemployed are significantly more likely than the employed to be "struggling" in their lives.



Gallup classifies the underemployed as those who are either unemployed or working part time but wanting full-time employment. Those who are working full time or working part time but not wanting full-time work are considered employed. This analysis of January through May 2011 data, collected as part of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, finds that underemployed Americans rate their lives slightly better now than they did in 2010, when 42% of the group was thriving.

When Gallup did the analysis last year, 19.8% of Americans in the workforce were underemployed; in the 2011 sample, 19.3% were in that category.

Underemployed Americans Experience More Daily Negativity Than the Employed

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