{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.sanders.senate.gov/vermont/nobody-goes-on-vacation-anymore", "Nobody Goes on Vacation Anymore", "2014-12-08", "2014", "2014-12", "Independent", "House", "VT", "Bernard Sanders", "S000033", "www.sanders.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "\u2018Nobody Goes on Vacation Anymore\u2019\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tMonday, December 8, 2014\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tLike tens of thousands of Vermonters, Christine Campbell, 44, of Winooski, works more than one job. She works as a full-time manager at a retail sports store in Essex, but out of economic necessity she has carved out another 30 to 40 hours each month to dedicate to her second job: decorating window displays for local merchants.\r\nOn a recent Friday, Christine was removing baseball pennants that declared Boston as the 2013 World Series Champions from a window display in the Burlington Town Center mall and replacing them with football memorabilia.\u00a0 Her freelance \u201cvisual display\u201d business creates an essential second stream of revenue. Without the money from her second job, she said, things would be tight.\r\n\u201cI would be able to pay my bills \u2013 and that would be it. I would not be able to enjoy my life,\u201d she said.\r\nThe Vermont Department of Labor, citing 2012 data, estimates that, in these rough economic times, about 30,000 Vermonters work more than one job to cover their expenses.\r\nChristine keeps current with her credit card debt and has no school loans.\u00a0 She notes, however, that she has many friends who have been struggling since the recession hit in 2008. \u201cThey do a lot of pasta nights. They don\u2019t have a lot of money,\u201d she said. \u201cGoing on vacation is nice, but nobody goes on vacation anymore.\u201d\r\nChristine\u2019s second job, which she has had for the last six years, creates some extra money for the occasional movie and dinner with a friend. Her earnings also help, slowly, \u00a0replenish her retirement savings that she had to deplete when her husband lost his job.\r\n Raiding Retirement Funds \r\nWhen her husband was out of work, Christine was forced to raid her retirement fund to make sure the bills were paid. \u201cThe money had to come from some place,\u201d she said.\r\nChristine is not alone. In the years that followed the most severe recession to hit the United States in generations, many people in Vermont and throughout the U.S. had little choice but to deplete the savings that they had worked hard to put aside for their retirement.\r\n\u201cThree-quarters of Americans said they're finding it difficult to both save for retirement and handle their day-to-day expenses,\u201d according to\u00a0a CBS News report.\u00a0 The reasons: low earnings, high living costs and unplanned expenses. According to the report: on average, each American has saved about $58,000 for retirement.\u00a0 For those with less than $250,000 in assets, the average retirement account amounts to only $29,358\r\nWith her savings sapped, she is worried about how she is going to pay for her own expenses in the years ahead.\u00a0 She knows she will receive Social Security, but isn\u2019t sure how far that will go to cover expenses.\r\n\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate, I will probably be working until I can\u2019t work anymore,\u201d she said.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.sanders.senate.gov/vermont/nobody-goes-on-vacation-anymore"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8623518515378237, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}