Re:Unemployment Is High. Why Are Businesses Struggling to Hire?
by jolux on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @10:55AM
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Unemployment benefits are currently the best they’ve ever been by a wide margin.
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Re:Unemployment Is High. Why Are Businesses Struggling to Hire?
by HarryHirsch on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @12:24PM
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The word is "currently", isn't it? They'll be rolled back soon enough, same as in 2008, to get the plebs back to work.
Re:Unemployment Is High. Why Are Businesses Struggling to Hire?
by jolux on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @01:34PM
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One assumes, though it's expected the child tax credit will be introduced in a permanent bill eventually, so I think there's a chance we'll see a more permanent UI benefit too. At least I hope.
Re:Unemployment Is High. Why Are Businesses Struggling to Hire?
by HarryHirsch on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @01:26PM
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Pfft. Biden rolled back immigration restrictions in a period of record unemployment, and you expect improvement in unemployment benefits? Labour must be squeezed, and the child tax credit does that, too. Can't have a reduction in births, that would mean less workers fighting for a job twenty years down the line.