{"id":224,"date":"2025-12-31T16:24:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/holmescore.com\/?p=224"},"modified":"2025-12-31T16:24:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:24:18","slug":"more-americans-are-relying-on-second-jobs-to-keep-up-with-rising-living-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holmescore.com\/?p=224","title":{"rendered":"More Americans Are Relying on Second Jobs to Keep Up With Rising Living Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More Americans are taking on second jobs to keep up with rising living costs. Labor market data shows that this trend is no longer limited to low-income workers and is increasingly affecting middle-class households as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Higher housing prices, energy bills, insurance costs, and everyday expenses mean that a single income is often no longer sufficient. Second jobs range from remote freelance work to part-time and seasonal roles in retail and services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Experts warn that while additional income can provide short-term financial relief, long-term reliance on multiple jobs may increase stress, fatigue, and reduce personal time. The trend is also reshaping family life and overall work\u2013life balance across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Americans are taking on second jobs to keep up with rising living costs. Labor market data shows that this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-usa","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holmescore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/holmescore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/holmescore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holmescore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holmescore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/holmescore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/holmescore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holmescore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holmescore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holmescore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holmescore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}