Americans today spend more time in front of the TV, in the car, and smoking weed.
Watch way more TV.
The daily TV consumption of American households has skyrocketed over the last 50 years from 5 hours to over 8 hours per day, according to Nielsen. Note that if a household is watching 8 hours a day, it may not mean each member of that household is present for all 8 hours.
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Spend more time in the car.
Americans are spending slightly more time on average going to on from work today. However, their commuting distance has increased. In the 1960s, 10% of workers could walk to work and now that number has declined to just 2.8%.
Spend more of life single.
According to data from the Pew Research Center, marriage rates in the US are in a steady decline. The split between married adults and single adults is now almost 50/50.
