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I started cutting grass and shoveling snow when I was 5-6 ....
I started in the boot mills when I was 2-3 retrieving bobbins from the looms.
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I started cutting grass and shoveling snow when I was 5-6 ....
COVID-19 Unemployment Benefits | USAGovNot an excuse not to work.
I know how regular unemployment compensation is supposed to be. The fact is that people make a half-hearted attempt to contact employers to satisfy the requirements, and milk the UE for as long as possible.COVID-19 Unemployment Benefits | USAGov
COVID-19 extended unemployment benefits from the federal government have ended.
As a general matter, individuals receiving regular unemployment compensation must act upon any referral to suitable employment and must accept any offer of suitable employment. Barring unusual circumstances, a request that a furloughed employee return to his or her job very likely constitutes an offer of suitable employment that the employee must accept.
Exactly....When I was a kid, by the age of 12 or 13, the girls were babysitting for extra money, and the boys were shoveling snow and mowing lawns at the same age. As soon as we were able, at 16, we got regular part-time jobs. We continued that through college, and full-time in summers. Upon graduation, most of us had jobs lined up, and we began our 40-year careers.
Government help, in the form on temporary unemployment compensation, was a last-resort, and we wanted to get off it and into jobs as soon as we could.
Now, parents in my neighborhood actively discourage their kids from shoveling snow, as it is “beneath” an upper-middle class kid, and none of them work the PT jobs at McDonalds we did. The parents have instilled the idea that work is optional, and now, with the government handing out the goodies, adults think it is just fine to live off other people’s earnings.
Sigh. The country used to be so much better.
I’m hearing a lot of excuses.Exactly....
Parents are providing for their children even into retirement age. When the children should be providing for their parents.
A regular job that has regular responsibilities and a paycheck is very foreign to children and teenagers these days.
And that lack of respect for those who do hold a job is rampant everywhere. It's not uncommon for a person working fast food to get blessed out by some Karen who wanted onion rings instead of fries....or got the oreo milkshake instead of strawberry.
No parent in their right mind wants their child to be subjected to that. Especially when there is a real chance of them catching covid and having genetically deformed grand babies because of the infection.
Nevermind the chance of armed robbery or some other wackanoodle driving a truck into the shack of a building while stoned out of his mind on fentanyl. And fast food/service type jobs are the last ones that do not require a drug screening of any sort. So your child's co-workers might be enterprising enough to sell them recreational drugs....
Then the worst thing is that your child might actually meet someone and fall in love with a blue collar worker who has no desire or capability of getting a college diploma.
These reasons and more are why parents are not allowing their children to get jobs.
So are unemployment filings going up or are benefits being extended? That seems counter-intuitive with a low unemployment rate. Does this have something to do with "workfare" having been removed?COVID-19 Unemployment Benefits | USAGov
COVID-19 extended unemployment benefits from the federal government have ended.
As a general matter, individuals receiving regular unemployment compensation must act upon any referral to suitable employment and must accept any offer of suitable employment. Barring unusual circumstances, a request that a furloughed employee return to his or her job very likely constitutes an offer of suitable employment that the employee must accept.