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Why married couples are working almost as much as they did in 1880

Here & Now‘s Celeste Headlee talks with The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson about why married couples are still working about the same amount — 67 hours of paid work — as they did decades ago.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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