It’s a situation far too common for most Americans. You’re sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic on the highway, again. Hundreds of cars are idling around you. It’s a typical, backed-up commute to work. Frustrated, you might wonder: How did we get here?
It wasn’t an accident. Our congested commutes are the result of decisions that stretch back decades, to when Americans began to build their communities around cars. Today, the ways in which we plan and invest in transportation continue to contribute to problems like congestion, lack of accessible and affordable transportation options, and a sprawling, unsafe, and ecologically destructive built environment.
Behind many of these challenges lies a measure familiar to transportation planners and engineers: “level of service,” or LOS. This seemingly innocuous statistic, however, is one of the biggest reasons we’re literally and figuratively stuck in traffic—and it signals a need for a new way to guide our future plans and investments. Click here to read the full article by the Brookings Institute
Employers and employees alike need to pay special attention to the family leave act proposal by Sen. Rubio. He wants to use Social Security funds to pay for family leave. If it's used to pay for family leave it would weaken a system already in crisis. A crisis perpetrated by the Republican controlled Congress. We should not use any Social Security funds to pay for anything else but Social Security. We need American workers to be secure and confident that their Social Security retirement income will be available when they retire. There can be no room for uncertainty. Congress must stop giving money to the 1%. They need to pay their fair share and at the moment they do not. All Americans and people doing business in the U.S. should pay their fair share into the Social Security fund. Keeping that fund operating smoothly gives confidence of financial stability in people's golden years.
What do you think will happen?
“Sen. Marco Rubio outlines paid family leave plan that lets people take from Social Security”
"It's unclear whether Rubio's idea has the backing of Senate Republicans. The bill doesn't have any cosponsors and Rubio acknowledged he "got impatient" and introduced the bill to start a debate within the party. Democrats have also proposed paid family leave plans that would not cut social security benefits.
