Continue this program indefinitely and you effective have two major Democrat/socialist measures imposed without so much as a public debate on the matter: a $15/hour minimum wage, coupled with a “universal basic income” of $15/hour.
Even with 40 million Americans allegedly unemployed, I still see “Help Wanted” signs all over businesses in my area. It makes absolutely no sense to continue this farce.
First, every unemployed person is not getting unemployment.
Second, I agree $600 was a wee bit high. I also agree if we waited for each state to cobble a program that can issue each qualified person 100% of their former wages, we’d still be waiting.
In my area there are also want ads. For Door Dash and the like, entry level jobs. It makes zero sense for those waiting to get called back to work, to take these jobs. They indeed would make substantially less than the enhanced UI payments. They have families payments etc.
The program was not intended to, and will not, run indefinitely. Under normal times, a lesser percentage UI payment is completely acceptable while searching for a similar position. Had the Dems not succeeded in keeping us locked down it wouldn’t be necessary to extend this.
Yeah as mentioned previously, only jobs available are near minimum wage manual labor jobs in meat packing, farm labor and warehouse distribution centers. Not the typical middle class service industry jobs a majority of Americans are used to performing and getting paid for.