LOL. Imagine there being jobs after the Dems shutdown the entire country for months and now it is reopening thanks to the Trump vaccine?
There is no "Trump vaccine". It was a co-operative effort by the nations of the world and independent international pharmaceutical companies.
The reopening is "thanks" to the wait for "Trump vaccine"? LOL! Trump told states to "liberate", not wait until there was a vaccine before re-opening.
Too bad there is no one to take them since Whispering Joe is still paying people to stay home.
Let's compare the states that said they were opting out of the Biden Unemployment subsidy with how they rank (1 is best; 50 is worst) on one economic recovery scale.
| Utah | | 1 | | Iowa | | 27 |
| Idaho | | 3 | | North Dakota | | 32 |
| Arizona | | 7 | | Ohio | | 34 |
| Georgia | | 12 | | Alabama | | 38 |
| Tennessee | | 16 | | Arkansas | | 41 |
| South Carolina | | 17 | | Wyoming | | 45 |
| Missouri | | 23 | | Mississippi | | 49 |
(US News, GDP by state Link )Late-to-drop subsidy:
| Florida | | 8 | | South Dakota | | 30 |
| Texas | | 9 | | Maryland | | 35 |
| New Hampshire | | 11 | | Oklahoma | | 37 |
| Montana | | 19 | | Lousianna | | 45 |
| Nebraska | | 20 | | West Virginia | | 48 |
| Indiana | | 21 | | | | |
Utah and Idaho are largely rural states experiencing for some years a housing boom. Many of the farms there don't hire American-born workers, anyway. Eleven other states made it into the top 20; 12 were in the bottom-half, with five in the bottom 10. Clearly rejecting the unemployment subsidy isn't helping those states.
There are many reasons why the return to work hasn't been instantaneous. Over 100,000 working-age people died from COVID-19 (many, I assume, from Trump's mask-shaming, "Liberate" states campaign and super-spreaders). The other 500,000 COVID-19 deaths would have affected working people, emotionally and financially. Some companies urged people to accept early retirement. Other workers were staying home to look after children during the pandemic. As they and their children become vaccinated -- and facilities for children re-open -- many of these workers will again become available for work.
Lower-paying and no-benefit jobs (the kind that make possible the One Percent) are lacking being filled because the poor, blacks and Latinos were disproportionately impacted by the pandemic as compared to whites, who might have had savings or, like the Trump kids, "worked" without interruption for Pappy.
Trump squashed numerous legal immigration programs that has now led to the number of skilled workers being down. Trump -- who has a dislike for public schooling -- shifted funding for trade and technical schools, to "choice" meaning he thought more students should go to private schools (he had a $5 billion plan to support scholarships for private schools in 2019).
Where do you think the working poor is putting the subsidy, what with funerals and unending expenses like rent, food, utility, media and, for some, a car? Saving it up for Trump Resort memberships?
Have you gone out to eat recently?
Guess you had no lay-off. If eating-out and take-away is your primary source of food.
The restaurants can't find workers. They are empty because they can't find anyone willing to work instead of getting paid more to sit at home.
Probably the empty ones might be those places that would pay workers as little as $2.13/hr, per the federal law for tipped employees? Or the state minimum wage rate which won't cover the cost-of-living in a big city like New York or Las Vegas. So folks have to survive on starvation wages so you can get your Waffle Fries and Cheetos Chicken Sandwich.
Could be many restaurant workers didn't make enough or have enough hours to qualify for unemployment benefits, let alone the subsidy. They're in the Red States, living under an overpass with no phone to let them know they're now needed.
Every service industry is in the same situation.
And fast-food CEOs making an average of $6,600 per hour has nothing to do with it? How about Chipotle Mexican Grill's CEO Brian Nicco pay package that reached $33.5 million in 2018? Nicco received 25% more-per-hour than the average annual salary of Chipotle service workers, you know, the people that actually do all the heavy lifting. Lure them back with a living wage and humane benefits, like most MAGA thugs get to enjoy.
It's the socialist dream to put everyone on the government dole and make them forever dependent on handouts ensuring they vote for the party that sends the checks.
Sure. Be like you. Think working folks are feeling-less cogs who can be shelved and brought out when needed. Then when they complain about their situation, there's an attempt to silence them by calling them un-American and "welfare" bums.
