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Are you asserting that the monetary value of unemployment benefits exceeds the full time salary of those jobs? It's easily possible that the the majority of loc
by minikites 5y ago
Are you asserting that the monetary value of unemployment benefits exceeds the full time salary of those jobs? It's easily possible that the the majority of local employers pay much less than that and are threatened by UI. Does every local business pay that well or just the corporate chains (which have additional wage pressures and other nationwide factors)?
- josephcsible 5y agoYou can't meaningfully compare just the monetary amounts, since the jobs require you to get up and go to work every day, and the unemployment benefits don't.
- minikites 5y agoWhy can't you compare them? Money is money and I can't pay for groceries or rent with or without "get up and go to work every day", it's completely irrelevant.
- josephcsible 5y agoIf your free money covers groceries and rent, then you compare "get up and go to work every day" with the luxuries you can use the extra money on.
- minikites 5y agoThat's a colossal "if", the idea of "welfare queens" living the high life on government benefits is never actually true outside of fraud cases. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/montana-governor-ends-extra-unemployment-payments-citing-worker-shortage-n1266346 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/montana-governor-ends-e... >In towns like Bozeman, where costs of housing have skyrocketed during the pandemic, workers “are not getting jobs because these jobs don't pay enough to pay their bills,” McWilliams said.
- COGlory 5y agoThis simply isn't true though. Because the jobs pay more than the welfare in most cases, and don't require any skill. Some businesses in town have closed as a result. I know multiple people who would rather scrape by on welfare and enjoy their summer.