it is expected that most people would prefer real work over quitting for a relatively short term modest pay raise.”””
Apparently, not many hve been on unemployment in the past years.
IF YOU QUIT a job-—you do NOT get unemployment-—except in very unusual cases.
So—IF you QUIT, thinking that you will make more money than your regular net paycheck, you are wrong.
This is for UP To 4 months....which means that if the virus problems decline enough for businesses to be allowed to re-open, then that UNEMPLOYMENT pay stops & you get your regular paycheck.
Other provisions: Small business will be given bridge loans to help them stay open, and IF they do not put their employees on unemployment, those loans will be forgiven in the future.
That gets a bit tricky when Governors & Mayors are hitting some businesses and not others.
UNCLEAR how self-employed persons fit into all of this.
But—remember-—QUITTING means no unemployment.
i was trying to paraphrase accurately what i had heard lindsay graham say on a tv news interview earlier yesterday. i might have gotten a detail wrong (specifically, employee volition in the matter). hopefully someone will come along and clear it up (or not).