{"id":213192,"date":"2025-11-11T01:39:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T23:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-nta-is-the-key-to-lowering-the-cost-of-living\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T01:39:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T23:39:30","slug":"liberia-nta-is-the-key-to-lowering-the-cost-of-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-nta-is-the-key-to-lowering-the-cost-of-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: NTA Is the Key to Lowering the Cost of Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"61\">As an owner of two businesses that hire employees in Monrovia, one of the first questions I use to screen new entry-level employees is to ask whether they live in the same neighborhood as the business location they applied for. For example, I avoid hiring frontline staff (think waiters, delivery drivers, etc) who live in Redlight for a role in Sinkor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"118\">My reasoning is fairly intuitive and based on experience&#8211;their transportation costs would simply take up too high a percentage of their salaries,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511100649.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an owner of two businesses that hire employees in Monrovia, one of the first questions I use to screen new entry-level employees is to ask whether they live in the same neighborhood as the business location they applied for. For example, I avoid hiring frontline staff (think waiters, delivery drivers, etc) who live in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":213193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,6629,7274,4712,1107,7741,13960,257,26258,254],"class_list":["post-213192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cost","tag-key","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-living","tag-lowering","tag-news","tag-nta","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}