Y’all will have to excuse me. I was not able to prepare the show notes today.
There is something you need to be paying attention to where the midterms are concerned: 538 is flashing all the warning signs, which they’ve avoided doing until recently. They have the Republicans at 55 percent chance to take the Senate. Last week, the Democrats were at 55 percent.
That’s a big deal.
Here’s a story for you to check out in the meantime:
Recently, the Acadia Parish school board began looking into a four-day school week for students and teachers.
It's not a new concept - more than one district has looked into and adopted it in Louisiana - but it is the first system in Acadiana to really look into the issue. But, it's not just schools looking at shortening weeks.
According to the New York Times, a survey in Britain found that there was no loss of productivity in places that adopted a four-day work week.
Most of the companies participating in a four-day workweek pilot program in Britain said they had seen no loss of productivity during the experiment, and in some cases had seen a significant improvement, according to a survey of participants published on Wednesday.
Nearly halfway into the six-month trial, in which employees at 73 companies get a paid day off weekly, 35 of the 41 companies that responded to a survey said they were “likely” or “extremely likely” to consider continuing the four-day workweek beyond the end of the trial in late November. All but two of the 41 companies said productivity was either the same or had improved. Remarkably, six companies said productivity had significantly improved.
But one restaurant in Florida is going even further.
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