{"id":17377,"date":"2018-10-30T12:02:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T20:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/the-best-day-for-payday\/"},"modified":"2018-10-30T12:02:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T20:02:51","slug":"the-best-day-for-payday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/the-best-day-for-payday\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Day For Payday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/money\/2018\/10\/30\/662225481\/the-best-day-for-payday?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business\">Paddy Hirsch<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/money\/2018\/10\/30\/662225481\/the-best-day-for-payday?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2018\/10\/30\/indicator_episode-number_maker1-d6fb97127f8e93d61dc076fd529fcb6bdc626436-s1100-c15.jpg\" alt=\"payday\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n            <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2018\/10\/30\/indicator_episode-number_maker1-d6fb97127f8e93d61dc076fd529fcb6bdc626436-s1200.jpg\">Enlarge this image<\/a>\n        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    <span><\/p>\n<p>        NPR<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- END ID=\"RES662233142\" CLASS=\"BUCKETWRAP INTERNALLINK MEDIAPROMO PRIMARY\" --><\/p>\n<p>Most Americans get paid biweekly, according to data from the U.S. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/opub\/btn\/volume-3\/how-frequently-do-private-businesses-pay-workers.htm\">Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a>. One of our listeners wanted to know why. Is it better than getting paid weekly, monthly or any other day? So we called history professor Nelson Lichtenstein from the University of California at Santa Barbara to find out the story behind the pay cycle.<\/p>\n<p><em>Music by <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dropelectric.com\/\"><em>Drop Electric<\/em><\/a><em>. Find us: <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/planetmoney\"><em>Twitter<\/em><\/a><em>\/ <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php?ref=home#%21\/planetmoney?ref=ts\"><em>Facebook<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Subscribe to our show on<\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/coming-soon\/id1320118593?i=1000395513616&amp;mt=2\"><em> Apple Podcasts<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/pca.st\/tLRP\"><em>PocketCasts<\/em><\/a><em> and <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/n.pr\/indicator\"><em>NPR One<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/money\/2018\/10\/30\/662225481\/the-best-day-for-payday?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Best Day For Payday\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/money\/2018\/10\/30\/662225481\/the-best-day-for-payday?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/money\/2018\/10\/30\/662225481\/the-best-day-for-payday?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2018\/10\/30\/indicator_episode-number_maker1-d6fb97127f8e93d61dc076fd529fcb6bdc626436-s1100-c15.jpg\" alt=\"payday\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n            <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2018\/10\/30\/indicator_episode-number_maker1-d6fb97127f8e93d61dc076fd529fcb6bdc626436-s1200.jpg\">Enlarge this image<\/a>\n        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    <span><\/p>\n<p>        NPR<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- END ID=\"RES662233142\" CLASS=\"BUCKETWRAP INTERNALLINK MEDIAPROMO PRIMARY\" --><\/p>\n<p>Most Americans get paid biweekly, according to data from the U.S. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/opub\/btn\/volume-3\/how-frequently-do-private-businesses-pay-workers.htm\">Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a>. One of our listeners wanted to know why. Is it better than getting paid weekly, monthly or any other day? So we called history professor Nelson Lichtenstein from the University of California at Santa Barbara to find out the story behind the pay cycle.<\/p>\n<p><em>Music by <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dropelectric.com\/\"><em>Drop Electric<\/em><\/a><em>. Find us: <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/planetmoney\"><em>Twitter<\/em><\/a><em>\/ <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php?ref=home#%21\/planetmoney?ref=ts\"><em>Facebook<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Subscribe to our show on<\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/coming-soon\/id1320118593?i=1000395513616&amp;mt=2\"><em> Apple Podcasts<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/pca.st\/tLRP\"><em>PocketCasts<\/em><\/a><em> and <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/n.pr\/indicator\"><em>NPR One<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}