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The Not-So-Changing Face of Leisure: "Think people today have it easier than their predecessors of 100 years ago? Not so fast. According to a nifty new study, leisure per capita is about about the same now as it was in 1900. How so? Blame a decline in hours worked that has largely been offset by time spent in school, plus average hours spent in home production is slightly higher than it was in the early part of the 20th Century. "