Many People who have never been to the USA recognize it from films and TV programmes. Then there is the work of the artist Edward Hopper, whose picture of ordinary American people,streets,and houses, in the city and in the country, make us think of old films, But what is life in America really like?
Most Americans who have jobs live more comfortably than people in almost any other country in the world. They usually work a forty-hour week and they have two holiday a year as well as holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas. In 60 per cent of families, the land is farmed, not many people work as farmers, and fewer Americands work in factories than in the past. Most jobs are