The Right to Work policy has created many negative consequences. I n places like Georgia, Alabama. Mississippi and Texas, right to work has destroyed the American dream. Workers there have a lower standard of living, make an average of $1,500 less per year and are more likely to live without health insurance (Whobrey, 2012). These states usually have higher levels of poverty and infant mortality rates as well. People have been promised jobs, opportunity, economic growth, and help businesses attract companies. In Oklahoma this policy led to jobs falling by 25 percent and the number of companies relocating there dropped by 33 percent (Whobrey, 2012). Companies have positions open for employees but our education is America is getting worse and there are no workers that are skilled enough or have enough experience to get the job. There is an alternative to this right to work policy. They can use work share which is an unemployment insurance program allowed by federal rules which makes more sense than the divisive right to work legislation that labor groups say will destroy unions (Cox, 2012). Work share allows employers to choose to cut the wages and hours of either all employees or a single department and the state’s unemployment insurance agency. Instead of employees facing layoffs they could decrease worker’s hours instead and let employees collect unemployment benefits to make up part of the lost wages. This will help to maintain a workforce and make it easier to adapt when demand improves (Anders, 2012). The graph below shows that work share policy will help decrease unemployment rate rather than right to work policy.

References
Anders, M. (2012, March 21). Work sharing: Michigan Senate considers unemployment reform aimed at preventing layoffs | MLive.com. Michigan Local News, Breaking News, Sports &
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