Jobs and Employment

Introducing a Different Type of 32-Hour Workweek Act

https://steadystate.org/introducing-a-different-type-of-32-hour-workweek-act/
Created
Fri, 19/07/2024 - 07:05
by Daniel Wortel-London

Working long hours? You aren’t alone.  Forty-one percent of U.S. workers reported working more than 45 hours a week in 2021. Sixteen percent said they spent more than 60 hours per week at work. Working long hours has been shown to degrade quality of life and productivity. But there’s a bigger problem with full-time employment: It isn’t environmentally sustainable.

Additional economic growth is the only way to generate full-time employment.

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Slow is Beautiful: The Need to Decelerate

https://steadystate.org/slow-is-beautiful-the-need-to-decelerate/
Created
Fri, 11/11/2022 - 02:31
by Greg Mikkelson

Brian Czech once likened modern economic growth to a runaway train. This metaphor drives home the point that to save nature and humanity from an ecological train wreck, the most important thing is to decelerate the global economy. Unfortunately, much writing on environmental protection neglects this imperative and fixates instead on what we must accelerate.

For example, the must-read Living Planet Report,

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