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When the Rolling Stones sang “I Can’t Get No (Satisfaction),” or comedian Rodney Dangerfield spoke of getting, “No Respect,” they could have just as easily been speaking about today’s labor market, full of employees, in some cases, just happy to be employed, but far from content with where they are and what they’re doing.

A new Gallup poll, based on the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, showed that 87.5 percent of workers were content with their jobs in April. And while that’s up from the low of 86.9 percent in July and August of last year, it remains below February 2008’s figures when 89.4 percent of workers polled said they were satisfied with their work.…

Yes, the American employment picture is getting better. The latest numbers show that the U.S. added nearly 250,000 jobs in April 2011, making it the 14^th consecutive month of job market gains. But economists aren’t as optimistic, pointing to a lack of job diversity and higher income positions as signs things are far from back to “business as usual.”

According to a new article from The Huffington Post, “ In April, the U.S. economy added 244,000 jobs — the third straight month to see an average of over 200,000 new positions created, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.…

Overworked? Underpaid? Join the Club: The Middle Class

This week, a money-themed CBS Sunday Morning featured Cary, North Carolina’s SAS, a business software company–featuring subsidized on-site daycare, gyms, and health care–as an example of a corporate aberration in the these tough economic times. As CBS reporter Jim Axelrod pointed out in his cover story “The Great American Paycheck Squeeze,” the reality is, “for more and more Americans in these recessionary times, SAS might as well be Disney World. The fact is, most workers feel overworked, under-appreciated and–most of all–under-paid.”

What’s your work experience in this decade of decline? Overworked? Underpaid? Or just happy to be here?…