Posted on 07/14/2021 10:22:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
About 1.8 million out-of-work Americans have turned down jobs because of the generosity of unemployment insurance benefits, according to Morning Consult poll results released Wednesday.
One of the more politically controversial reasons has been the availability of unemployment insurance benefits, in particular emergency provisions that were introduced because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed, 26 states opted to cut emergency benefits early with the intention of incentivizing people to take open jobs.
Of those actively collecting unemployment benefits, 29% said they turned down job offers during the pandemic. In response to a follow-up question, 45% of that group said they turned down jobs specifically because of the generosity of the benefits. Extrapolating from the 14.1 million adults collecting benefits as of June 19, Morning Consult concluded that 1.8 million people turned down job offers because of the benefits.
To be clear, this is in regards to any and all unemployment insurance benefits including the standard 26 weeks worth of benefits as well as the emergency benefits that are set to end by September.
Furthermore, all 1.8 million won’t necessarily find employment quickly as jobs once offered to them may have been filled by others.
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Butt, butt, butt (p)resident pedo joe assured us he saw no evidence of that being the case.
It’s not just Americans turning down jobs. Our fridge broke. We went to a big box hardware store.
The entire, huge appliance department was being manned by one guy. He said applicants “keep failing the drug test”.
No one should be collecting unemployment when there are jobs available
“Family/Personal Obligations”?! Like buying food? Paying rent?
“Health Reasons” = disability pay
Well in caulifourkneeuh, if it was less than $950 worth of stuff you could just leave with it and if stopped/caught, get a citiation.
Most of those employers won’t take unvaccinated people.
Had dinner at local Chili’s Monday. Sign on the door said something like...
This is a nation wide problem, Due to staff shortages we will be closing daily at 8pm.
Congress approves $1.9 trillion virus relief bill, President Biden will sign it Friday
The House gave final congressional approval to the sweeping package by a near party-line 220-211 vote.
House Majority Whip James Clyburn of S.C., center, walks through Statuary Hall before the vote on the Democrats’ $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
House Majority Whip James Clyburn of S.C., center, walks through Statuary Hall before the vote on the Democrats’ $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
Alex Brandon
by Alan Fram, The Associated Press
Updated Mar 10, 2021
WASHINGTON — A Congress riven along party lines approved the landmark $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill Wednesday, as President Joe Biden and Democrats claimed a major triumph on legislation marshaling the government’s spending might against twin pandemic and economic crises that have upended a nation.
The House gave final congressional approval to the sweeping package by a near party line 220-211 vote precisely seven weeks after Biden entered the White House and four days after the Senate passed the bill. Republicans in both chambers opposed the legislation unanimously, characterizing it as bloated, crammed with liberal policies and heedless of signs the crises are easing.
“Help is here,” Biden tweeted moments after the roll call, which ended with applause from Democratic lawmakers. Biden said he’d sign the measure Friday.
CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE
Most noticeable to many Americans are provisions providing up to $1,400 direct payments this year to most adults and extending $300 weekly emergency unemployment benefits into early September. But the legislation goes far beyond that.
The measure addresses Democrats’ campaign promises and Biden’s top initial priority of easing a one-two punch that first hit the country a year ago. Since then, many Americans have been relegated to hermit-like lifestyles in their homes to avoid a disease that’s killed over 525,000 people — about the population of Wichita, Kansas — and plunged the economy to its deepest depths since the Great Depression.
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“Today we have a decision to make of tremendous consequence,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., “a decision that will make a difference for millions of Americans, saving lives and livelihoods.”
For Biden and Democrats, the bill is essentially a canvas on which they’ve painted their core beliefs — that government programs can be a benefit, not a bane, to millions of people and that spending huge sums on such efforts can be a cure, not a curse. The measure so closely tracks Democrats’ priorities that several rank it with the top achievements of their careers, and despite their slender congressional majorities there was never real suspense over its fate.
Help is here. https://t.co/urZCiigeS1
— President Biden (@POTUS) March 10, 2021
They were also empowered by three dynamics: their unfettered control of the White House and Congress, polls showing robust support for Biden’s approach and a moment when most voters care little that the national debt is soaring toward a stratospheric $22 trillion. Neither party seems much troubled by surging red ink, either, except when the other is using it to finance its priorities, be they Democratic spending or GOP tax cuts.
Republicans noted that they’ve overwhelmingly supported five previous relief bills that Congress has approved since the pandemic struck a year ago, when divided government under then-President Donald Trump forced the parties to negotiate. They said this one solely reflected Democratic goals by setting aside money for family planning programs and federal workers who take leave to cope with COVID-19 and failing to require that shuttered schools accepting aid reopen their doors.
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“If you’re a member of the swamp, you do pretty well under this bill. But for the American people, it means serious problems immediately on the horizon,” said House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., referring to the added federal borrowing the measure will force.
Even so, Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker, who like all Republicans voted against the bill, touted its $29 billion for the ailing restaurant industry, tweeting that it would help them “survive the pandemic.” Democrats predicted this week that Republicans would do that, with Pelosi saying, “It’s typical that they will vote no and take the dough.”
» READ MORE: Biden is coming to Pennsylvania next week after signing the $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill
A dominant feature of the 628-page bill is initiatives making it one of the biggest federal efforts in years to assist lower- and middle-income families. Included are expanded tax credits over the next year for children, child care and family leave — some of them credits that Democrats have signaled they’d like to make permanent — plus spending for renters, feeding programs and people’s utility bills.
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Besides the direct payments and jobless-benefit extension, the measure has hundreds of billions for COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, schools, state and local governments and ailing industries from airlines to concert halls. There is aid for farmers of color, pension systems and student borrowers, and subsidies for consumers buying health insurance and states expanding Medicaid coverage for lower earners.
“Who’s going to help? Do we say this is all survival of the fittest? No,” said House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth, D-Ky. “We rise to the occasion. We deliver.”
The legislation would reduce the number of people living in poverty this year by around one-third, from 44 million down to 28 million, the liberal-leaning Urban Institute estimated Wednesday. The poverty rate for children would be reduced by over half, said the institute, which examined the impact of the measure’s stimulus checks, jobless benefits, food stamps and tax credits for children.
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This one’s easy. Make an unemployment check payable only under the proven ability to prove one has worked 44 hours in any given week(pay check stubs). Call it a bonus and make the amount subject to a congressional vote EVERY year. Save money and we’ll get lots more productivity out of it. The minimum wage will thereby fluctuate.
Canobie Lake Amusement park in Salem, NH is reducing hours this summer because they can not hire enough people to run the park 7 days a week. They make most of their income in the summer when kids are off from school.
They’re going to find out the hard way when they go begging for jobs, employers won’t be too thrilled with those gaps on their resume.
Unable to pass a drug test is a major problem in the lumber industry. Especially in states like OR & WA. In OR ALL drugs are legal. However, you do not want someone working in a sawmill around equipment that can easily kill you if you are on drugs.
This is also one of the main problems in the trucking industry. A trucking company does not want to put a drugged out person in a $150K tractor, pulling a $75K trailer with someones product on it. Especially since that whole rig can be over 100,000 lbs. The liability is too great.
In my own state (Maryland, for now), a judge forced Governor Hogan to keep giving out the $300/week federal unemployment stipend. Otherwise, he would have ended it on July 3. So if the lines are long at some places in Ocean City, hopefully, people will understand why.
Pay more. Employers are competing with the government for emloyees, it sucks but that it reality. Again PAY MORE.
They have to pay more than the govt is paying to not work.
my thread, with a poorly worded title, from three days ago with a hostess in Florida telling us firsthand how this is adversely effecting the restaurant business:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3975293/posts
There should not be a minimum wage. Every job has a worth to be decided by the market.
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