claim: "americans work way more than an average of industrialized countries around the world."
author: keith ellison
evidence_1: americans work more than anyone in the industrialized world. more than the  english, more than the french, way more than the germans or norwegians. ...  wrote the best-selling book the overworked american in 1992, concluded that in  1990 americans worked an average of nearly one month more per year than in  1970.
evidence_2: jul 4, 2017 ... these statistics give me hope that america will continue to be the great country  that it already is. i am glad that americans, on average, work harder than every  other developed country in the world. it means that we as a nation will continue to  innovate, to create, and to protect the lifestyle we have come to ...
evidence_3: oct 2, 2017 ... but america's relationship with guns is unique in another crucial way: among  developed nations, the us is far and away the most violent — in large part due to  the easy access many americans have to firearms. these charts and maps show  what that violence looks like compared with the rest of the world, ...
evidence_4: dec 17, 2013 ... the american work force has some of the weakest mathematical and problem- solving skills in the developed world. ... and development, a global policy  organization, adults in the united states scored far below average and better  than only two of 12 other developed comparison countries, italy and spain.
evidence_5: mar 12, 2015 ... nearly 200 years later, americans' emphasis on individualism and work ethic  stands out in surveys of people around the world. when pew research center ...  but americans are more likely than their counterparts in economically advanced  nations to deem religion very important. more than half (54%) of ...