The population must now focus on quality of life. It will be decades before there will be enough jobs for even half the able bodied population. Communes will sprout up all over America, as desperate families seek a low necessity way to survive. Families come together to assist each other. Cities grow upward, not out, as all the land is taken and used.
Job sharing is implemented by corporate America.
Cars pile up in every community as less workers can afford to use them. Industry of all levels begin gearing their expansion with worker accommodation in mind. Abandonment of the type of automated machinery that has replaced labor in recent years begins to take place, reducing technology and overhead costs for businesses, allowing the hiring of more labor at a living wage. Gone may be the automated telephone customer service machine, the self service gas station, the a la carte supper and salad bar restaurant, the street cleaning trucks, the automatic teller machine, the drive through fast food window, those clever labor reducing tactics employed by greedy American business will be exposed and shamed for what they do not do employ people. American business lobbies will rally for this as it takes the economic and administrative pressure off of business to supply costly health plans to workers.