Here's Your Change: Americans working much harder – for less pay

John W. Schoen
MSNBC
August 12, 2009

Feel like you’re working a lot harder these days, putting in longer hours for the same pay — or even less?

The latest round of government data on worker productivity indicates that you probably are.

The Labor Department said Tuesday that the American work force produced, at an annual rate, 6.4 percent more of the goods they made and services they provided in the second quarter of this year compared to a year ago.

At the same time, “unit labor costsâ€