Typical of the Mitch McConnell attitude of many here.
40 to 50 million unemployed and underemployed (we really don’t know the true number), millions potentially homeless. Millions of new unemployment claims each week. The $600 per week brought me up to 45% of my former wages. Base Colorado unemployment (for me) was only 24% of my former wages.
Good jobs being replaced by subsistence-level McJobs. Whole industries devastated. The US is a service-oriented economy, and those jobs are either gone for good or won’t come back for many years. 60% of small businesses shut and won’t be returning (estimates vary).
I’m wondering why the attitude of some here is that we are all just to lazy to work and we are just trying to game/ cheat the system. It’s basically tough shiite, we got ours, so fsck y’all.
I feel bad for everyone that lost their jobs and businesses.
There have been a few insensitive Richards here but, most of us understand
Good luck
The ignorance on this website is truly astonishing - forgive them because they are truly ignorant.
I agree with you—there is more suffering out there than Freepers seem to realize. I think a lot of Freepers are retired? I can’t tell.
Service industries and small businesses—time to pivot away from them a bit.
Honestly and this might be an unpopular idea but it’s time to pivot to the covid related jobs that ARE hiring. Delivery. Amazon drivers. There are federal jobs hiring (FEMA, SBA). Contact tracers. Health care.
My new grad 21 year old son just got two job offers—100% remote and pay well. Auditing and accounting. He did have to put in hundreds of applications and did a nationwide search.
Now that so many jobs are remote nationwide searches make sense.