1. Drumbeat Continues from Left and Right for Work Sharing
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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 ...

2. How's That Hopey Changey Work Share Thing Doing?
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Just in case you were wondering, work share looks like it's doing pretty damn good in Germany, the country that has embraced it most aggressively. Since the downturn began in the fourth quarter of 2007 ...