America’s unemployed are sending a message:
They’ll go back to work when they feel
safe – and well-compensated
Washington Post,
by
Heather Long
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
10/9/2021 8:49:32 AM
The anemic September employment report, with only 194,000 jobs added, illustrates the extent to which the recovery stalled as coronavirus cases surged last month, but it also signals something deeper: America’s unemployed are still struggling with child-care and health issues, and they are reluctant to return to jobs they see as unsafe or undercompensated. (Snip) The numbers are striking: 309,000 women over age 20 dropped out of the labor force in September, meaning they quit work or halted their job searches. In contrast, 182,000 men joined the labor force, Labor Department data showed. The simplest explanation for the mediocre jobs
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Anti_democRAT 10/9/2021 9:01:50 AM (No. 939808)
Its the governments fault. Let the people go. Make early treatment covid packages available to the people. Reverse the scare campaign into a science based public information campaign of the real risks, preventative and effective treatment methods of covid. Get the hell out of the way and let the people and business's go. And finally to the u.s.a leaders, u know who u r, kill yourself in shame for being so corrupt and causing this whole mess.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 10/9/2021 9:02:22 AM (No. 939809)
They’ll go back to work when they feel hungry. Stop coddling these slackers.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
KayJayMac 10/9/2021 9:10:25 AM (No. 939818)
Perhaps a lot of the women dropped out to homeschool their kids? That's my optimistic hope, anyway. A lot of things have changed over the past couple of years, including what's really important to the health and sanity of families. The rat race is not all it's cracked up to be.
Wait until next month's numbers, when all of the people who won't take the vax are fired.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 10/9/2021 9:12:44 AM (No. 939819)
Does this count all the people fired over fascist vaccine mandates?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jalo1951 10/9/2021 9:18:48 AM (No. 939826)
I've been back in school since July (plus I worked summer school in person). Our district of over 16,000 students (not counting thousands of adult employees) covid rate is .4%. We have not had an covid student in our building for several months. With the government pushing money at these people I can see why they don't go back to work. You can easily collect an extra $1000 with 3 kids in the home and food stamps have also been upped. Take away the cost of child care, transportation, clothing, lunches and it can be easier for Mom to stay home and be Mom and not a working Mother. Plus in some states there is still a rent moratorium. No, Joe those numbers are not progress. More people dropping out, quitting. A larger salary is being wiped out by inflation. Energy and food specific. But this covid porn and schools has got to stop.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 10/9/2021 9:20:13 AM (No. 939830)
Eventually lack of food, lack of money, lack of gas, lack of technology access, lack of credit cards, lack of clothing, lack of friends, lack of toilet paper, and lack of overall self-esteem will change their minds.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
red1066 10/9/2021 9:20:13 AM (No. 939831)
After receiving an enormous amount of money for doing nothing for over a year, these people may have fairly large bank accounts. So they're sitting back waiting for the perfect job to come along, and since many live in blue states where the gravy train hasn't stopped yet, why bother to look for work.
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Bank of America just raised their minimum wage to $21, because they cannot find enough people to work. What the government is doing is raising the minimum wage by stealth - providing compensation for sitting at home on your arse that far exceeds even that level of pay.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Sully 10/9/2021 9:23:10 AM (No. 939833)
Why aren't we bouncing back as we were headed when DJT was POTUS?
Bc Bitme has turned a V shaped recovery into a dead cat bounce. Just as Oblabber did after the Great dem Recession. He did that by funding unemployment w/ free money and Free rent. Take away those perverse incentives and they will go back to work and we will recover.
It isn't complicated.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Gina 10/9/2021 10:05:55 AM (No. 939863)
I've been working through the entire pandemic. I will stick to my plans to retire next year with over 40 years working. I keep getting job offers telling me I should work for them after I retire. Tempting because there are so many jobs and the wages have gone up!! A lot of people I know have taken early retirement.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
paral04 10/9/2021 10:35:57 AM (No. 939891)
Heather, you might consider the fact that your president is insisting all companies that have anything to do with the government must have vaccinated employees. There are a great number of people out there who don't want this experimental drug inside them causing stokes, heart problems, sterility in men, miscarriages in women plus nervous conditions in just one year alone. We have no idea what the long term consequences will be. Thus, they have no jobs to go to. And by the way, the shots ain't working because they have caused the virus to mutate and infect the whole population again..
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 10/9/2021 11:11:57 AM (No. 939934)
They would NORMALLY go back to work when they got hungry and the rent was due. But since the federal government is paying them to stay home, they are fed and housed, so they don't ever plan to work.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Kate318 10/9/2021 11:26:52 AM (No. 939963)
“… but it also signals something deeper: America’s unemployed are still struggling with child-care and health issues, and they are reluctant to return to jobs they see as unsafe or undercompensated.”
Reason #4,620,510 why I detest the liberal mindset. I know far too many people who believe this tripe.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
MDConservative 10/9/2021 11:40:12 AM (No. 939985)
Self-service and automation will rebalance the labor market. Government $$$ will unbalance it in favor of those not working...voluntarily unemployed. And the middle class just putters on. What this country really needs is a good general strike - shut everything down for a week. The shock might wake up the populace and politicians.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
WI Cynic 10/9/2021 12:22:31 PM (No. 940036)
People will put with poor wages and/or poor conditions if they have good job stability. If that job stability is removed - you know, like by the government's self-destructive policies - people won't go rushing back to the poor jobs they had before, particularly if they've found something else better (which includes never-ending unemployment checks).
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
janjan 10/9/2021 1:23:53 PM (No. 940107)
They’ll go back to work when the government shuts off the spigot.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 10/9/2021 1:46:24 PM (No. 940129)
Re: #3, they are "undercompensated" because they are under-skilled. No problem for chemical engineers, or trained airline pilots, or medical techs or plumbers or electricians to get compensated well.
Without specific job training, compensation is much less. How can that be a surprise to anyone?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
watashiyo 10/9/2021 9:33:28 PM (No. 940424)
Okay. Bring in the Illegal Aliens and hire them for "dime a dozen". And starve the slackers when the entitlements dry up.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
mifla 10/10/2021 5:19:39 AM (No. 940595)
Cut off the "pay me not to work" checks.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
judy 10/10/2021 6:48:52 AM (No. 940623)
They can run the roads, go on vacation & shop but can't go to work????
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They must have figured out a way to avoid work but still collect enough money to pay the bills. Maybe free pedicures will lure them back.