About 11 percent of Americans are sleep deprived, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey. After surveying nearly 404,000 adults, just 31 percent said they got enough sleep every night for the past month. Most fell somewhere in the middle of the spectrum between well-rested and utterly sleep deprived.
Further, among people who were unable to work, nearly 26 percent said they had not had even one good night’s sleep in the prior 30 days, along with nearly 14 percent of unemployed people.
A poll by the National Sleep Foundation (NSF) found a similar trend, with nearly one-third of Americans saying they couldn’t get a good night’s sleep because of worries about the economy, money or their job.
In all, 27 percent of those polled said their sleep had been disturbed in the past month due to money problems, such as:
- Personal finances (16 percent)
- The economy (15 percent)
- Losing their job (10 percent)
This lack of sleep plaguing Americans may have life-threatening repercussions in their ability to make quick decisions when under pressure.
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