Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!vda-gw!news.moat.net!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "mclark1946@msn.com" Newsgroups: fj.sci.economics Subject: 32 hour workweek Date: 22 Dec 2004 14:34:22 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 8 Message-ID: <1103754862.412873.239880@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.143.228.139 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1103754866 6997 127.0.0.1 (22 Dec 2004 22:34:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:34:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=4.143.228.139; posting-account=A1qeZgwAAACaz1oFjUEPIg7bdsXf8Tai Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.sci.economics:45 What would be the impact on our economy if we went to the 32 hour week? Time and a half after 32 hours. More people working? Less unemployment? After the original ajustment, wouldn't we be better of as a country? Would companies ask people work more overtime, or would they hire more workers? How about health insurance? What are the pros and cons? Clark