No. of Recommendations: 5
Free buses led to homeless using them as living quarters when it was tried in LA during the pandemic. I don’t know what the mechanism would be to prevent this, but it needs to be addressed, lest the buses become *less* popular, not more.
When I visited Seattle in 94, city busses were free, downtown. The Boeing HQ on East Marginal Way, was outside of "downtown" so I had to pay for that trip. How did free downtown busses work for Seattle?
Free daycare is similar. I expect it would be overwhelmed in short order....Within a couple months she had more than a dozen showing up because other parents heard about it and took advantage
Have you checked the cost of daycare? From the Google net sifter:
The annual cost of daycare in Metro Detroit varies by center and age of the child, but generally falls
between $12,000 and $15,000 per year for center-based care, while family child care costs are slightly lower, often around $9,000 per year. Factors like the type of care, child's age, and specific provider influence the final price
What is the point of taking that job at Walmart, if most of your wages go to paying for daycare? Of course the woman that offered to do it for free was swamped. But if there was an organized program, across the city, with sufficient capacity, so everyone could work, and not worry about their spawn's welfare, or the cost of daycare?
Steve
