Posted on 07/15/2021 9:01:43 AM PDT by JV3MRC
A new poll blew apart the media’s year-long gaslighting that extended unemployment benefits weren’t discouraging work.
A new Morning Consult poll estimated based on 14.1 million Americans who were receiving unemployment insurance for the week ending June 19, “benefits reduced the number of accepted job offers by an estimated 1.84 million over the course of the pandemic.” The 1.84 million Americans turned down jobs likely because of government handouts. Morning Consult’s survey found that “[m]ost workers receiving unemployment insurance know that their benefits are about to expire, signaling that job acceptance and search practices are likely to change even before benefits actually expire.”
So much for the media’s regurgitated Biden administration talking point that unemployment benefits don’t discourage workforce participation. The Boston Globe’s July 2020 editorial was headlined, “No, unemployment benefits do not discourage work.”
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What do they think is going to happen once the money runs out and they try to get a job with those gaps on their resumes?
They will be employed by the door to door vaccine stasi. Gonna need a lot of people for that. Gonna need a lot of body bags as well.
I watched this happen with the 99 weeks a few years back... Had a good friend that was a functional alcoholic and he got mad and quit one day, started collecting unemployment and then compared every job offer to what he was making sitting at home on the couch... soon after, the functional alcoholic turned into a drunk!
In today’s SE Missourian newspaper a local Italian restaurant that survived the worst of the Wuhan is closing because they can’t get workers. Wife noticed the butcher area in the local grocery closed the other day; reason: no workers. Just got a message that local CVS pharmacies will close at noon hour for lunch, likely same reason. Easier to collect benefits than to actually go to work.
Ok so these people are so filthy rich that they can afford to just walk away like that? right....
It will become illegal to ask for employment history.
Already hard now.
While many will argue this, it is not because of wages. No rent, lots of stimmy, why would you work?
The “media narrative” on almost everything seems ridiculously easy to “wreck” these days.
A new poll blew apart the media’s year-long gaslighting that extended unemployment benefits weren’t discouraging work.
But you’ll never hear that on any MSM outlet.
I took advantage of no one wanting to work and stepped into something new. They are willing to train because no one is applying. Funny thing is they commented how they were looking for someone with my other qualifications and couldnt find that either for months. So the guy im replacing is now the machinist(his choice!) and Im the draftsman.
If you can get more for sitting home than for working, you’d be dumb NOT to do so. No one should have gotten more than survival money, and that should have been cut off if they declined an appropriate offer of work.
Ok so these people are so filthy rich that they can afford to just walk away like that? right....
I retired from teaching for pretty much the same reason. I had enough years in that my pension wouldn’t get larger, I was at the top of my bracket on the salary schedule, so I’d not get any raises at work and when I did the math, I figured I’d be working full time for an extra $100 a month.
No, I am talking about the OWNERS of these businesses. How can THEY just walk away, close up, from their businesses? They must have a lot of $$$ saved up....
No, I am talking about the OWNERS of these businesses.
I know of another local restaurant that has eliminated its popular breakfast hours—can’t find a chef willing to work the shift. Every restaurant around here seems to be looking for workers. Their marquees are advertising for workers rather than their specials.
You do realize there is a correlation between wages offered and applicants willing to work? Supply and demand?
You do realize there is a correlation between wages offered and applicants willing to work? Supply and demand?
I’m not saying that that is the only reason restaurants are hurting but it certainly is a factor.
Sucks but that has to be factored in or go out of business.
Sucks but that has to be factored in or go out of business.
Ok so where did these owners go then? Did they get jobs? Where the already wealthy and could afford to close and retire?
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