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36-Hour Week

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If “California must move nearly 1 million people off of public assistance and into jobs in the next few years” (Nov. 4), perhaps one solution might be to simply reduce the full-time workweek. If the full-time workweek was reduced from 40 to 36 hours, and all overtime work eliminated, especially in fields requiring much unskilled, and semiskilled labor, we’d create a giant labor pool that would absorb a large number of the aforementioned people.

Granted, this is not a perfect solution to a complex problem, and it would certainly not solve the whole problem, but it is a step in the right direction.

JOHN S. TRICARICO

Santa Barbara

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