{"id":117333,"date":"2021-09-09T12:28:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T16:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=117333"},"modified":"2021-09-09T12:29:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T16:29:53","slug":"pandemic-unemployment-ends-many-unemployed-individuals-complain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=117333","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic unemployment ends-many unemployed individuals complain"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ABC tweets that jobless Americans have few options in response to the end of the pandemic augment to unemployment. Senator Cruz drops some wisdom. (Twitter)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some politicians tried to describe the government as “unfair” towards the unemployed for letting the pandemic related unemployment benefits to end. How could these individuals be left out like that? This is a hard argument to make when employers across the country have a hard time filling job openings.<\/p>\n

One common justification from people for accepting these benefits instead of finding a job? They were getting more money combined from regular unemployment and the pandemic augmentation. To them, getting paid more to not work was better than working low pay jobs where both the employer and the customers “were not nice” to them.<\/p>\n

From the Washington Examiner:<\/span><\/p>\n

They found themselves on a benefits system that was absurdly augmented to pay many workers more than their jobs, with welfare paying up to $25 an hour in many states<\/span><\/strong>. At first, this state of dependency was certainly not the fault of the unemployed. But for many months now, there have been enormous labor demand and widely available, safe, effective vaccines against COVID-19, leaving little excuse for most of the idle lingering on the taxpayer dole.<\/p>\n

The “temporary” expanded benefits have finally been allowed to lapse more than a year later, expiring on Sept. 6. To be clear, this doesn’t mean all unemployment benefits have ended, just that the unemployment welfare system has reverted to its pre-pandemic norms. But now, the welfare recipients who’ve enjoyed their year-plus taxpayer-funded vacation aren’t very happy. About 7.5 million people lost benefits after the federal augmentation lapsed, and they’re making their feelings known in media interviews.<\/p>\n

“I’m very, very angry because this is an attempt, in my opinion, to force us all back to work in low-paying jobs, like in hospitality and retail, where people are treated like garbage by customers and by the companies they work for, where their work schedules change at the very last minute<\/strong><\/span>,” Massachusetts-based former dishwasher Lois Prew said . “It’s incredibly difficult for parents to find care at the last minute for their children.<\/span><\/strong>”<\/p>\n

“To just cut people off, it’s ridiculous and it’s unethical and it’s evil<\/span><\/strong>,” New York-based photographer Travis Curry told the New York Times. “If we can’t buy food or go to local businesses because we don’t have money to live in New York, how will New York come back?<\/span><\/strong>”<\/p>\n

“It just feels like being discarded<\/span><\/strong>,” former producer Kathleen Fox told the Washington Post. Fox complained that she was being forced to — gasp! — apply for jobs that pay less than she previously made<\/u>. “The stress of everything has just caused me a lot of emotional distress that I didn’t have before<\/span><\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

These particular individuals, quoted by left-of-center media outlets seeking to vilify the lapse in welfare benefits, are not outliers. At least 1.8 million people have chosen not to return to work due to ultragenerous benefits, polling shows<\/a> , and that’s probably a huge underestimate. (People typically underreport socially stigmatized behavior when polled.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Washington Examiner has the article and a collection of tweets on the topic here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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