To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
National Sabbatical Plan
We call upon our President and legislators to develop a National Sabbatical plan which would give sabbatical leave to people who have been working and thereby give the unemployed a chance to fill in. Change unemployment from a curse to an earned blessing.
Why is this important?
America has more people wanting work than it has jobs, thanks in part to automation. Let's take up the slack by giving workers a sabbatical. I suggest a flexible system so people could choose when to redeem their sabbatical credits. The length of the credits would depend on the ratio of workforce to jobs and the sabbatical pay rate would depend on the economy and the individual's reported income taxes; unemployment insurance would be renamed a sabbatical tax. Turn unemployment into something that is earned instead of spurned. Let young workers work before they get to take a break. Almost every business or institution already offers vacations to their workers; simply expand the concept. See the following for more details:
http://shareliterature.com/shareliterature.com/Replace_Unemployment.html