Don’t know about other states but anyone who thinks the benefit in Texas, for anyone with any skills at all, is likely to lead to dependency is crazy. It couldn’t even feed a family let alone help with housing costs etc.
Been there, thank heaven I had some savings.
If your family’s food is covered by food stamps, you get a check for each kid, your housing is Section 8, and the gov’t is providing you a free cell phone and subsidies on the already-subsidizes trains and buses, what costs do you really have?
Add to it that their useless 36% “average” unemployment check comes from the fact that if you made 100k your unemployment is a small fraction of that, but if you your income is low you get almost the whole thing (think it’s 80% or more here), it’s enough for plenty of people to keep living comfy, hood-rich lifestyles funded by our paychecks.