Posted on 09/19/2021 8:35:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Pathetic pearl clutching. Butter, properly cooled, will last for years.
Why aren’t there enough people to do these jobs?
Stop the welfare benefits and extended unemployment and the creeps abusing disability programs and then see how quickly that changes things.
I took early retirement.....I could see what was coming and found things had already shifted when they began putting everyone in part time positions. Which my employees began doing in various departments at that time. They offered me part-time or severence....I took the severance, (much to their surprise) after calculating how much better I could do retiring and get a no brainer part time job that would free my time and pleasure. Never looked back.
Stop just stop beating the welfare horse. It’s false. Florida stopped the fed money May this year and there max UI benefit is $275 per week. So why then tell the class is Florida still having a critical shortage of workers of the fed money was cut in May it’s nearly the end of September now and the max you can get in Florida is 275 per week. You are telling us all that for $275 a week Florida can’t fill $15 dollar an hour jobs. Get real that’s not the case and you know it. There has been a shift in the labor force it’s so obvious even someone who failed freshman economics can see it, heck even AOC with a degree in econ can see it and she is according to most here the dumbest human on earth. Texas cut fed money in June same thing here service industry and retail trap jobs are empty yet not a single person in Texas has gotten cornpop moneys since June explain that. Texas also.ended it’s extended bennies months ago for state UI benefit.
He certainly isn't some punk in NYC who used to flip burgers for a living, but is now on the COVID-dole because that pays better.
I really doubt that the current apparent dearth of workers is due to the "producers" and "creatives" withdrawing from society in disgust.
Regards,
I was “retired” from my job as a legal secretary when Covid hit. I was a certified personal fitness trainer on the side. When my office laid off most of us, I picked up my training business and I drive for Doordash. I’m a much happier person.
Which in America simply does not usually mean the food is "expired," ceasing to be safe, nutritious and good, but that it is usually past its "best to use by" date, and if keep cold (keep you refer as close to freezing as possible on the top shelf) even boxed salads should be good for a week. But I microwave such (aside from greens) well before eating. Thank God for such.
“This is what happens when the friction of testing and masking is jammed into a just-in-time economy. The gears start seizing and incentives are skewed.”
Well put.
Part of such is related what this article worth posting attests to:
Every month, 14 million people now get a disability check from the government...The federal government spends more money each year on cash payments for disabled former workers than it spends on food stamps and welfare combined....The vast majority of people on federal disability do not work.[1] Yet because they are not technically part of the labor force, they are not counted among the unemployed...
In Hale County, Alabama, nearly 1 in 4 working-age adults is on disability.[2] On the day government checks come in every month, banks stay open late, Main Street fills up with cars, and anybody looking to unload an old TV or armchair has a yard sale. ..There's no diagnosis called disability. You don't go to the doctor and the doctor says, "We've run the tests and it looks like you have disability." It's squishy enough that you can end up with one person with high blood pressure who is labeled disabled and another who is not....The health problems where there is most latitude for judgment -- back pain, mental illness -- are among the fastest growing causes of disability.
People on disability are not counted among the unemployed. "That's a kind of ugly secret of the American labor market," David Autor, an economist at MIT, told me. "Part of the reason our unemployment rates have been low, until recently, is that a lot of people who would have trouble finding jobs are on a different program."..disability has also become a de facto welfare program for people without a lot of education or job skills. But it wasn't supposed to serve this purpose; it's not a retraining program designed to get people back onto their feet. Once people go onto disability, they almost never go back to work. Fewer than 1 percent of those who were on the federal program for disabled workers at the beginning of 2011 have returned to the workforce since then, one economist told me....
As I got further into this story, I started hearing about another group of people on disability: kids. People in Hale County told me that what you want is a kid who can "pull a check." Many people mentioned this, but I basically ignored it. It seemed like one of those things that maybe happened once or twice, got written up in the paper and became conversational fact among neighbors. Then I looked at the numbers. I found that the number of kids on a program called Supplemental Security Income -- a program for children and adults who are both poor and disabled -- is almost seven times larger than it was 30 years ago.
By Chana Joffe-Walt. More on a problem designed to combat a problem: Unfit for work, by Chana Joffe-Walt. On a problem designed to combat a problem: https://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/
"Baker said the cost will be reimbursed by the federal government since it is a COVID-related issue."
What is not a "COVID-related issue?" Or Climate Change, which could be the next category for Federally funded help.
I think that is probably what is happening in that business district. A lot of people probably either retired during covid or decided to work for themselves.
My son wrote a paper on the labor force for his economics class last year - he was looking at at the large baby boomer population in or near retirement and how there was a much smaller population of younger workers coming up with people having less kids. No doubt, covid bumped those retirement numbers up a lot. The mandates will make it even higher I bet.
In addition to the retirements from people who could have retired years ago, I see a lot of the second income job workers have pulled back.
It really hit food services and retail, and especially seasonal businesses. I know firsthand of small companies that have six or seven full-timers, mostly to cover the slower weekdays, and 20-25 part-timers to cover the weekends and busy holidays. Many of those part-timers left.
One way the owners cope is by shortening business hours, closing at 6 or 7 instead of 9 or 10. One of my favorite food joints closes at 8 instead of 11.
That’s probably a lot of it. How much of an increase in home schooling has there been in the US? 10-20%? How many people, mostly women, is that no longer in the workforce?
TPTB forced people to stay home and not all of them got unemployment and the extra $300 ended quite a while ago in red states. They had to manage.
Some people also quit their jobs because they were scared of covid. All the older women no longer work at our local grocery store. They worked for extra income to go along with what their husbands made.
Some people said screw wearing a mask all day. Now people are saying screw the jab mandate.
COVID made people live a different way and get by with less and they decided they liked it.
A lot of people went into homesteading mode and they decided they liked it.
If it was the Rapture, then I am feeling very sorry for myself and everyone else.
I note at the grocery store, during peak time, at most will be two open cashiers, and I end up having to bag my own groceries because there’s nobody there.
So now, basically whereas I used to do one trip per week, I do two, and just get enough to be able to do the self-checkout.
Also for those who do want a 2nd gig a lot of them are now driving for themselves doing Uber/Doordash/Instacart etc.
Covid was a real break through for home delivery. Lots of people who never dream of ordering groceries on line are doing it now
Who wants to work at a place that forces mask wearing and an experimental shot?
How are those dropping out of the workforce surviving?
# I know I would quit my job in a heart beat if they mandated the shot at my work.
I’m planning for exactly that.
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