If you could give me one idea, proposal , change or the like what would it be? Why would it be that? How would we do it?

If you could give me one idea, proposal , change or the like what would it be? Why would it be that? How would we do it?
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People are unemployed because there are more people than jobs. The recent recession only exacerbated this growing problem that started years ago. My solution is to shorten the work-week. What with unemployment benefids and medicare/medicaid, we’re paying about 10% of the population to not work. We could employ everybody at close to 100% with shorter hours, yet everybody could still earn pretty close to their current incomes.
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