THE DESTRUCTION OF THE AMERICAN WORKER

Profits before people. Investors before workers. Maximum labor - Minimum wages. That's the business model used by the 1% in the United States which in turn results in the 1% hoarding 45% of the wealth produced by the American workforce.

'Insecure, underpaid, highly stressed': Rutgers report looks at state of American workforce

American workers are "insecure, underpaid, highly stressed, and generally unhappy at work," researchers found.

The report, "Unhappy, Worried, and Pessimistic: Americans in the Aftermath of the Great Recession," details the results of a national survey conducted by the school’s John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development. Researchers at the university have been taking stock of public perception on the effects of the recession since it ended in 2009, and honed in on the American workforce ahead of Labor Day weekend.

The survey, which included 1,153 people over a two-week period in July and August, found that Americans’ perspective on the damage wrought by the recession has only gotten worse. Seventy one percent said the recession caused permanent change, compared to the 49 percent who believed so when researchers first conducted their survey in 2009.

The Rutgers report also gave respondents a multiple-choice quiz, with a dozen words and phrases, asking them to choose all that applied to American workers.

The top two choices were "Not secure in their jobs" at 70 percent, and "highly stressed" at 68 percent. Rounding out the top three was "takes pride in work," but "happy at work" fell at the very bottom, with just 14 percent.