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Originally published January 28, 2012.  \n1 Recently a friend confided over dinner that her job was “killing” her. I was surprised. She is a director of a midsize nonprofit that is doing citizen diplomacy work in the Middle East, and she has often remarked on how gratifying it is to be involved ina program that brings historical enemies face to face to share their stories.  \n2 But 2011 was a tough year for fundraisers, and my friend has been doing double duty as her understaffed organization struggles to make up the shortfall. Like many nowadays, she takes her work home with her, which has taken a toll on her personal life, health and sleep. She is thinking of leaving the nonprofit but is afraid to do so before she finds another job.  \n3 Another friend, who is employed by a large insurance company, is routinely forced to work late and at home on weekends—often without pay—on the projects she didn’t have time to finish at the office. With the threat of layoffs ever-present, she dares not complain....  \n4 Americans already work hundreds of hours a year more than their counterparts in other developed countries, including workaholic Japan. They also have fewer days off than Europeans, who typically take four to six weeks of paid vacation a year.  \n5 Companies argue that grueling work schedules are necessary to boost productivity. But consider that, despite the recession, the productivity of U.S. workers has increased more than fourfold since the 1950s. Meanwhile, the buying power of wages has remained stagnant and in recent years has even begun to decline. Someone is getting rich off the exponential rise in productivity, but it is not the American worker.  \n6 In the past, unions struggled not only to raise pay but also to shorten the hours that their members had to work. The trend toward shorter hours continued unabated from the Civil War through the end of the Great Depression and the enactment, in 1938, of the Fair Labor Standard Act’s 40-hour-week provision. But during World War II work hours increased sharply, and it has not been a significant public issue since.  \nUnauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal.  \n7 Given the recent troubles in the U.S. economy, this may seem an odd moment toreconsider the value of working less. But this crisis is not due to poor productivity;  \nU.S. workers’ productivity is at an all-time high. Neither is it a crisis in corporate profitability, which continues to soar despite tough economic times for ordinary Americans. It is arguably a crisis in corporate greed, one created by financial entities pushing for ever higher growth rates and levels of profitability regardless of the cost to the long-term health of the economy or for those whose hard work made that economy flourish over the past century.  \n8 Americans know that we can no longer afford a corporate culture on steroids that generates unsustainable profits by systematically cannibalizing our nation and the people who make it work. So a good place to start applying the brakes on this runaway train would be making sure that we don’t have to kill ourselves at work just to make a living.  \n9 A widescale reduction in work hours would spread out the national workload and help to make more jobs available for the unemployed. Historically, shorter workweeks have been as large a creator of new jobs as market growth, sociology professor Juliet Schor argued last year.  \n10 While shorter hours would mean less income for many, nearly half of Americans surveyed in 2004 by the Center for a New American Dre","cbCais3nZIPTntMe","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCais3nZIPTntMe","pdf",1560634,"English","# Passage Overview\n## Evidence and Examples\n## Reasoning and Connections\n## Style and Persuasive Elements\n# Writing Task Requirements\n## Focus on Relevant Features\n## Analyze How the Argument Persuades\n## Do Not Evaluate Agreement","[{\"question\":\"What is the essay prompt asking students to do?\",\"answer\":\"Explain how Richard Schiffman builds an argument to persuade his audience that Americans need to work fewer hours, analyzing the most relevant features that strengthen logic and persuasiveness.\"},{\"question\":\"What parts of Schiffman’s writing does the prompt emphasize for analysis?\",\"answer\":\"The prompt highlights evidence (facts/examples), reasoning (how ideas and claims connect), and stylistic or persuasive elements (word choice or emotional appeals).\"},{\"question\":\"Does the essay need to agree or disagree with Schiffman’s claims?\",\"answer\":\"No. The essay should not explain whether the reader agrees with Schiffman’s claims; it must explain how he persuades.\"}]","SAT Practice Test 9 - Essay | PDF",1790052726]