Shrimpbox
Gold Member
This thread will not be about high minded principles and philosophies but rather an effort to come up with a solution to a real world problem.
We have just opened a second mom and pop type restaurant and we have hired four new cooks. One of the boys, who is a good worker and an excellentl cook lives across town and so has challenges in getting to work because he has no license and no vehicle. He has to cobble together unhelpful bus routes, family favors, or friends with a car. Sometimes even the bosses take him home. So far he likes his job and wants to continue but dependability is a factor.
Instead of spending millions on ineffective mass transit why not create a voucher system. If someone will give a worker a ride to work, let the employer sign a voucher that the driver can redeem for money in relationship to the distance he had to travel. That way the worker doesn't have to spend a large chunk of his daily pay on transportation( our employee spends 12 dollars to take a taxi one way) and someone else reaps the benefit of assisting someone to get to the job. Only people in poverty or lower class situations would be eligible, and employers would be responsible for the authenticity of the vouchers they signed.
Can someone give me some love here?
We have just opened a second mom and pop type restaurant and we have hired four new cooks. One of the boys, who is a good worker and an excellentl cook lives across town and so has challenges in getting to work because he has no license and no vehicle. He has to cobble together unhelpful bus routes, family favors, or friends with a car. Sometimes even the bosses take him home. So far he likes his job and wants to continue but dependability is a factor.
Instead of spending millions on ineffective mass transit why not create a voucher system. If someone will give a worker a ride to work, let the employer sign a voucher that the driver can redeem for money in relationship to the distance he had to travel. That way the worker doesn't have to spend a large chunk of his daily pay on transportation( our employee spends 12 dollars to take a taxi one way) and someone else reaps the benefit of assisting someone to get to the job. Only people in poverty or lower class situations would be eligible, and employers would be responsible for the authenticity of the vouchers they signed.
Can someone give me some love here?