Jobless claims are at a 14 month pandemic low.
The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell last week to 498,000, the lowest point since the viral pandemic struck 14 months ago.
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Yes it does.
My wife is the HR manager where she works and oversees 4 facilities in 3 states and will absolutely tell you people don't want to work because of unemployment.
I've seen it also where I work. Myself and 5 other people have been the only ones to never have been off work the past year.
Now where I work we see a lot of people applying but never taking calls to work. They just want to say they are looking for work so they can keep those unemployment checks coming. People got spoiled last year by not having to work and now a lot of them don't want to work again, they keep wanting uncle sucker to pay them for nothing.
If people are being paid more on unemployment than working where your wife works, that company needs to increase their wages.
Seems people are going to other employers who are paying them a living wage with decent working conditions.
I know when I worked in accounting, the company I worked for opened a store in Oregon. They offered a little over minimum wage in pay. No one even applied. This was in the 1990s.
The company increased the starting wage to a living wage and had no problem hiring good workers.
It's simple supply and demand. Do you understand capitalism?