One school in Delaware is offering to pay parents to drive their own kids to school.

That's the incentive Eastside charter school in Wilmington is offering. Parents will get $700

for each child they drop off and pick up.

That's for the whole year. It's an incentive designed to solve a problem many school districts

around the country are facing. They simply do not have enough bus drivers.

Pittsburgh public schools are putting sixth graders on port of 40 buses. The city already

delayed the start date. Administrators say they needed extra time to adjust to a school bus

driver shortage of more than 400 drivers. One industry survey found 81% of school districts are

having trouble finding drivers. And that's just one example of how the pandemic is still being felt

in all kinds of economic sectors. Mining companies are struggling to hire underground machine operators.

The TSA is short on security screeners. And ports don't have enough workers to load and unload

shipping containers. We feel the importer and exporter pain no doubt about it.

Gene Sorroca is executive director of America's busiest cargo port in Los Angeles, where today

vessels are waiting a week just to get into port. The impacts that all of this has had is noticeably

hurtful to these men and women who are trying to do their jobs in the supply chain.

Consider this. It's not just bars and restaurants. All sorts of businesses are still struggling

to hire workers. And the Delta surge may slow the recovery even more.

From NPR, I'm Ari Shapiro. It's Monday, August 23rd.

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