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en-wikipedia-org-7822		Economy of the United States - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	29556	3685	70	Americans have the highest average employee income among OECD nations.[48] The median household income in the U.S. as of 2008 is $52,029.[127] About 284,000 working people in the U.S. have two full-time jobs and 7.6 million have part-time ones in addition to their full-time employments.[120] Out of all working individuals in the U.S., 12% belong to a labor union and most union members work for the government.[120] The decline of union membership in the U.S. over the last several decades parallels that of labor's share of the economy.[128][129][130] The World Bank ranks the United States first in the ease of hiring and firing workers.[131] The United States is the only advanced economy that does not legally guarantee its workers paid vacation or paid sick days, and is one of just a few countries in the world without paid family leave as a legal right, with the others being Papua New Guinea, Suriname and Liberia.[132][133][134] In 2014 and again in 2020, the International Trade Union Confederation graded the U.S. a 4 out of 5+, its third-lowest score, on the subject of powers and rights granted to labor unions.[135][136] Some scholars, including business theorist Jeffrey Pfeffer and political scientist Daniel Kinderman, posit that contemporary employment practices in the United States relating to the increased performance pressure from management, and the hardships imposed on employees such as toxic working environments, precarity, and long hours, could be responsible for 120,000 excess deaths annually, making the workplace the fifth leading cause of death in the United States.[137][138][139]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7822.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7822.txt