It was understandable that unemployment was not designed to reward people for not working, but the numbers and the cause right now are extremely unusual. Plus, the cascading impact on the economy as a whole of suddenly eliminating this source of income would be horrific, especially for the small businesses that are teetering on the edge of survival. If the Republicans stonewall on this one, the Dems will sweep the election, change all the electoral rules and we shall become a one party country.
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People have to have an incentive to return to work.
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Let’s just keep printing money. What could go wrong.
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Spoken with too many business managers who cannot start again due to employees not wanting to go back to work.
They floated reducing it to $200...which I could see.
They make more on unemployment with this amount than we pay machine operators.
People didn’t want to come off unemployment, making it hard for businesses to get employees back from furlough to qualify for the program’s requirements.