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> People getting those payments now are following the standard unemployment rules. No... they are still on unemployment from the loss of their job last year.
by bpodgursky 5y ago
> People getting those payments now are following the standard unemployment rules.
No... they are still on unemployment from the loss of their job last year. The rules changed, but the people already on unemployment (voluntarily) did not lose eligibility.
> The unemployment benefit for corona was calculated to be a minimum wage job plus 40 dollars a month.
This is _on top of the existing state benefits_. You are pretending that the federal benefits are the only UI, which is just not true.
- lovich 5y agoDid their job get reassigned to them? You need to be seeking work and accepting offers if you are on unemployment. > This is _on top of the existing state benefits_. You are pretending that the federal benefits are the only UI, which is just not true. No shit. If you look at my comments you might find me taking about this as additional and how 1 single wage job isn’t enough to live. The real problem businesses are having is that being forced to figure out an alternative to working at a shit job for a year meant people figured out alternatives. People learned other skills and changed careers. That’s on top of al the deaths. Most of these shit jobs were frontlines workers who got hit hard by Covid. You don’t need to kill everyone to make the labor market really tight. If you made it so there was even 1% less supply than demand and there’s still margin available to use then you’d see salaries skyrocket as firms need to start cutting their margin to acquire labor.