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Great! It makes absolutely no sense at all that Indiana business are scrambling, begging, and pleading for workers and the state and Feds are shoveling money to the unfortunate unemployed that are struggling to survive because they can’t find a job. Jobs are everywhere so let capitalism and free enterprise thrive.
Agree!
Much easier to blame Joe Biden than admit maybe they don’t pay enough or their jobs/workplaces are awful.
https://twitter.com/HicksCBER/status/1390664456175226881
Yes yes
Enough of the extra unemployment already… every business owner I know (including myself) can’t find enough workers. People can sit at home and make the same or more in many cases than working, that’s ridiculous, END IT!
Unemployment is 47% of your wage, to a max of $390/ week. if you’re paying nine bucks an hour then no wonder you can’t find workers…
And what enterprise have YOU operated, Jolf R?
How much do you pay your workers?
Here’s something from this week’s IBJ. Make sure you read to the end.
“Scotten, however, said the emergency supports might be a pretty significant factor. Though he’s managed to set up many interviews, some applicants seem more interested in creating the illusion that they’re looking for work than actually getting a job, he said.
“They’re not in a real rush to get back to the workforce,” he said. “I’ve scheduled interviews, five or six in a day, and one or two show up. Most of the time, I don’t even follow up with them. I just try to move on and find the next applicant.”
Several former Loughmiller employees simply moved on to other work during the pandemic, Scotten said. In many cases, it was a job with better pay and daytime hours. His own experience with having been laid off made him realize the importance of spending time with his son, and many in the restaurant industry have used the pandemic as a time to re-evaluate their priorities.
“I think a lot of people used this last year to reflect and go out and find something else they want to do,” he said. “People came back with a little higher sense of value for their time.”
https://www.ibj.com/articles/hungry-to-hire
Under 4% unemployment, time to go back to work
Households with $50,000 income struggle to afford child care, so it’s no wonder people making less than half that on minimum wages find it less expensive to stay home and take care of their own kids. But then how do these families afford food, rent, utilities, etc.? They are between a rock and a very hard place.
So are small business owners, especially those like restauranteurs who can’t yet operate at full capacity. Too many have closed permanently, as have the job openings they would have provided. That should have “freed up” many workers.
Low paid workers HAVE been looking for a year now for jobs with
* enough pay to pay their bills,
* safety from COVID for themselves and their families;
*. health insurance in case they become infected and hospitalized.
Working families clearly have more than economic concerns when life itself is at greater risk.
Everyone has free “safety from COVID for themselves and their families”….. get vaccinated.
Yes, please everyone participate in the Moderna and Pfizer Vaccine trial. We have no idea what the long term effects of the vaccine, but we will have really good data if 150,000 million citizen participate in the propagandemic trial. The survival rate is 99+% so injecting yourself with an unknown chemical compound that reprograms your RNA is the best route to a healthy society.
Clearly if the vaccine was viable they would approve it for general use instead of leaving it on “emergency authorization. But that may be 5-7 years before they fully evaluate the data on the vaccine trials. And since it is emergency authorization, you have zero recourse against the manufacturer.
If you want safety trust that propaganda is not the answer and that your God given immune system is successful 99+% of the time.
Most long haulers would disagree with you, Steve.
Eric “Thought Leadering from Behind” Holcomb strikes again, slowly, after sticking his finger in the air and being told what to do by his crony contributors. There is nothing conservative in this loser, much less anything principled like actual federalism or trusting the free market.
You nailed it Eric. Old Eric is one cautious dude.
Somewhere there is an enormous disconnect. Every business owner I talk to, from small business with 50 people to major corporations with 10,000’s of thousand of employees, the topic of finding workers in the USA (not overseas) is a problem. There are more job openings in the USA than the unemployment numbers show. I know there can be a mismatch of skills vs. work force capability to explain some of these discrepancies, but when you dive into the different job openings, with little to no prior experience and/or one year experience required, one can only draw the conclusion that the USA workforce does not want to work. Maybe an example will help. First I have no investment nor connections to the Pizza business. The only connection is I am guilty of eating pizza more than I probably should. Let’s take Papa Johns. The average Papa John’s salary ranges from approximately $25,000 per year for Retail Assistant Manager to $50,187 per year for Pizza Cook. The delivery drivers for Pizza Hut average $34,593; for Papa John’s Pizza drivers average $32,884; for Domino’s Pizza drivers average $31,266. These companies have thousands of open positions advertised all over the USA. Regarding the statement of inadequate pay – there are so many unfilled jobs in almost every industry currently, that if you do not like the pay you are getting in the industry you are currently working, then switch jobs …. that is what I did … show initiative … most employers like that trait in their employees and reward them accordingly. I am not recommending everybody apply for a “pizza” job but you can see there are good paying jobs with benefits out there if you apply yourself. One thing I learned early in my career, nothing is going to be given to you on a “golden platter”, it’s all about what you put into the effort. And finally this is one of the reasons so many corporations moved their operations overseas decades ago. As Steve Jobs explained to President Obama, “…. too late, the train left the station years ago and it is never coming back”. Don’t let the excuses being given overwhelm your thoughts, not everything will be perfect for the job you want, but to get that perfect job, sometimes it takes several steps and demonstration of showing initiative, and the risk of not looking at this positively as an opportunity to move from a job to a career, the job you may want will no longer exist, once it leaves and/or is replaced by alternative means.
No excuses for anybody to not be working….. period.
I agree!!
Like several people have mentioned, extra unemployment benefits is not keeping people out of the workforce. To put this in perspective, about 2.3% of jobs in the workforce are at minimum wage, so the extra benefit affect a small portion of the jobs.
People are staying of of the workforce, for multiple reasons; avoiding child care costs, fear of COVID, re-training for better jobs, maybe moving to jobs that allow working from home, with the accompanying flexibility and convenience, better home life experience, etc… I think people have finally realized that those bottom of the scale jobs are not worth having for lots of reasons and not just because jobless benefits are paying pretty good right now.
As long as the Government is handing out money and people don’t have to work for it, they will continue to do so. People have an excuse for everything and to use the excuse that pay isn’t enough? GO OUT AND EDUCATE YOURSELF OR WORK HARDER FOR A BETTER JOB. It isn’t anyone’s responsibility but your own. If you want everything done for you, LEAVE AMERICA!
All good comments but the reality is that the current administration is trying to de-incentivize the workforce by printing money and distributing it to the masses. That is their plan. They want to take away the ambition, drive, and entrepreneurial spirit that has built this nation. It is a devilish plot and is working, unfortunately.
As an example, we took an application from a couple who want to rent a single-family home we manage. The guy was at the bare minimum income level in order to qualify. When told he was a weak applicant he said his girlfriend was not working but had income. We asked him to explain and he said she gets $1600/mo. unemployment but starting in July she will get another $800/mo for the child earned income credit for a total of $2400/mo from the taxpayers! If the populace has no work ethic, they become dependent on the government, which is what they want. Biden is on record that he wants to strengthen unions and grow them back to where they once were. The union provides money to the democratic party, and also votes for their candidates and they also want to eliminate the right-to-work laws in states that have it now. This is all part of their master plan. God help us.