“unwilling to pick berries for $16-17/hr?”
You could make it $100/hr and they still wouldn’t work. Why would they when they can sit home (rent free) and watch TV, drive a new car, all you can eat buffet with EBT, free phone, free internet. Ah the good life. How much longer are the taxpayers gonna put up with this?
They should cut off the welfare and then make the convicts pick the berries for about $0.50/hr.