41. Drumbeat Continues from Left and Right for Work Sharing
(Matching tags: jobs, worksharing, unemployment)

Today's Wall Street Journal profiled Pilgrim Screw Corp.'s successful use of work sharing — reducing workers' hours instead of laying them off, with the workers getting partial unemployment benefits to ...

42. What Political Compromises Could Create Jobs?
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... would be a large stimulus program. Since Congress is not willing, here are some policies that President Obama could pursue on his own to reduce unemployment. 1. Work sharing This one should be a simple ...

43. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, Oct. 17 – 28, 2011
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Five new labor market research reports were released this week and last week – one report discusses paid sick days while the rest focus on unemployment in the U.S. Center for American Progress Creating ...

44. The Military Spending Fairy
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Faced with the prospect of cuts to the Defense Department's budget, the defense industry is pushing the story of the military spending fairy on members of Congress. They are telling them that these cuts ...

45. How's That Hopey Changey Work Share Thing Doing?
(Matching tags: jobs, worksharing, unemployment)

... Germany's GDP growth has been only slightly better than in the U.S. However, while our unemployment rate rose from 4.8 percent in the 4th quarter of 2007 to 9.1 percent in the most recent quarter, Germany's ...