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Never mind not worth it, going to stay positive on the New Mexico Forum. I should not have wrote that comment on Seattle, why spread negative energy. I'm here to ask questions and learn about the next State I am moving to.
Could this just mean more women are staying home to raise kids instead of working, or maybe the cost of living is so low, the stimulus payments are enough to keep people from exerting themselves?
I live in Seattle and the main problem area for homeless is around Pioneer Square (City Hall Park and 3rd and Yessler). They all gather there becuase of a free food program. The rest of Seattle is not bad at all. "Tent cities for the homeless are everywhere near Downtown Seattle" is a total exaggeration and not true at all. Seattle as a city is absolutely booming.
If you can't find a job in Seattle you have a serious problem & need to update your skill set in a major way. It has about a 3.5% unemployment rate and I see "Now Hiring" signs it seems on every other business now. Most of the homeless are alcoholic or drug addicted bums & felons that don't want to work. I lived in SF Bay for almost 20 years before Seattle and San Fran always had a massive nasty homeless problem despite the powerful job engine there. Mostly just mentally unstable drug addicted or alcoholics or felons that didn't want to work or couldn't work due to mental issues or drug issues. Seattle and SF both have extremely high and continually escalating rents and super tight rental markets with record low vacancies that are also putting people in the margins out on the street.
But when the increased their minimum wage, more people were suppose to get layed off, and businesses shuttering. Well at least that is what they said.
I work with contractors, and the universal feeling right now is that it pays more not to work than to work, with the latest stimulus package. Everyone is backed up right now because vendors cannot find anyone to report to work. Government in DC is disincentivizing productivity and good behavior.
I work with contractors, and the universal feeling right now is that it pays more not to work than to work, with the latest stimulus package. Everyone is backed up right now because vendors cannot find anyone to report to work. Government in DC is disincentivizing productivity and good behavior.
With the low wages in Las Cruces its hard to blame them. If you could make half the US average personal income staying home or make less than half working your butt off every day, which would you do?
With the low wages in Las Cruces its hard to blame them. If you could make half the US average personal income staying home or make less than half working your butt off every day, which would you do?
Work multiple hours and become as prosperous as I could possibly be.
With the low wages in Las Cruces its hard to blame them. If you could make half the US average personal income staying home or make less than half working your butt off every day, which would you do?
I would work my butt off and save what I don't need for rent, food, bills from the stimulus checks. Anyone using stimulus checks as vacation money is just shooting themselves in the foot, not to mention being short sighted and lazy. That money isn't going to keep coming.
I work with contractors, and the universal feeling right now is that it pays more not to work than to work, with the latest stimulus package. Everyone is backed up right now because vendors cannot find anyone to report to work. Government in DC is disincentivizing productivity and good behavior.
That's an over generalization of the situation. That may be the case in New Mexico and it is very foolish of people to do that. However, New Mexico is hardly typical of the rest of the country. In many states, the cost of living, particularly rent, is going to eat up the stimulus checks very quickly. I know people who are trying to sell some of their belongings to make sure they can pay rent & buy food - the previous stimulus checks helped them but until they can find full time work, they are going to struggle.
Try surviving on the west or east coast or Hawaii on just the stimulus checks - they're just band aids - welcome, but just a band aid. The cost of living in each state is going to dictate how effective the stimulus checks are - here they are going much further than the majority of the country.
Compared to corporate welfare that's been going on for years, it's a drop in the bucket.
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