Leisure and Wealth Promise Longer Breaks by 1985
The Southern California Research Council predicts by 1985 Americans could work a 22 hour week take 25 weeks vacation retire at 38 and earn nearly twice current income. The 50 page leisure study notes leisure already accounts for 25 percent of the 110 million person hours in Southern California and that future leisure growth will demand broader use of outdoor facilities libraries arts and adult education while warning of congestion affluence and loss of open space as environments change.