<Part of the reason their are no jobs is a business would have to offer substantially higher pay than the welfare payments to get people to work. The job might not be worth that.
No kidding.
About 35 years ago, I attended the Univ of London. I was surprised to see so many immigrants (mostly black Caribbean and African types from the Commonwealth countries, but plenty of East Indians as well) in what I’d call working class jobs like conductor or ticket-taker. I was told that the white British didn’t want those kinds of jobs anymore and many would rather not work than do them.
Almost 20 years ago I flew to England next to a man who ran a factory over there. He told me he had a difficult time finding English people to hire because they couldn’t justify getting off the dole and losing benefits for a job where they’d have to show up everyday and lose their ‘free time.’
Apparently nothing has changed.
I don’t want to penalize people who are temporarily in a tough place, but you don’t make things so easy that the temporary handout becomes a way of life.
This is the exact problem. I don’t want to see people suffer (who does?) but welfare was intended to “tide people over”, not to be a career option.