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Sorry if you feel that way but you have an elitist attitude. Last time I looked it was 50 united states not 50 states. I'm not starving I lost a part time job in semi retirement. I'm fine but I know a lot of people who are having problems through no fault of their own. Nobody voluntarily walked off their job they were told to go home and stay home. This is not your run of the mill recession. Most jobs are not coming back.
Yeah my mom is fine too... semi-retired and was working 1 day a week for roughly $100 as a bartender... talked to her the other night and asked her how she's doing and she said she's doing great and has banked over $12k since the $600 bonus started and even though it's ending she'll be good.
Meanwhile I've been working the entire time but I guess I should be happy for her? It is mom after all.
Yeah my mom is fine too... semi-retired and was working 1 day a week for roughly $100 as a bartender... talked to her the other night and asked her how she's doing and she said she's doing great and has banked over $12k since the $600 bonus started and even though it's ending she'll be good.
Meanwhile I've been working the entire time but I guess I should be happy for her? It is mom after all.
Holy Toledo...yeah, that sounds about right since WA UE max is around $ 800/wk. FL max is only $ 275/wk, but still, for many (myself included), the state UE + fed UE was more than we had been making. There is simply no denying that.
Yeah my mom is fine too... semi-retired and was working 1 day a week for roughly $100 as a bartender... talked to her the other night and asked her how she's doing and she said she's doing great and has banked over $12k since the $600 bonus started and even though it's ending she'll be good.
Meanwhile I've been working the entire time but I guess I should be happy for her? It is mom after all.
Part time was almost full time over 32 hours per week. Made nothing compared to my past life. Some people made out most really need the federal kicker to get by. Everyone who worked a full time job and lost it are not loving a temporary federal bonus when the next few years of their lives are in limbo.
Holy Toledo...yeah, that sounds about right since WA UE max is around $ 800/wk. FL max is only $ 275/wk, but still, for many (myself included), the state UE + fed UE was more than we had been making. There is simply no denying that.
The thing that nobody seems to talk about is why states are all over the map in their max benefits. Why are people in FL or NC complaining about the FPUC when it is their own state making it so necessary in the first place? If state governors can issue executive orders to close arbitrary businesses and impose curfews and masks, can't they eliminate or increase the max benefits?
Part time was almost full time over 32 hours per week. Made nothing compared to my past life. Some people made out most really need the federal kicker to get by. Everyone who worked a full time job and lost it are not loving a temporary federal bonus when the next few years of their lives are in limbo.
The next few years of our lives are in limbo for all of us regardless of what the FPUC is.
The thing that nobody seems to talk about is why states are all over the map in their max benefits. Why are people in FL or NC complaining about the FPUC when it is their own state making it so necessary in the first place? If state governors can issue executive orders to close arbitrary businesses and impose curfews and masks, can't they eliminate or increase the max benefits?
I agree. One could argue that wages are higher in WA than FL, for example, but not THAT much higher, and COL in FL is not low. The UE discrepancy is far too wide among the states.
Yeah my mom is fine too... semi-retired and was working 1 day a week for roughly $100 as a bartender... talked to her the other night and asked her how she's doing and she said she's doing great and has banked over $12k since the $600 bonus started and even though it's ending she'll be good.
Meanwhile I've been working the entire time but I guess I should be happy for her? It is mom after all.
My guess is plenty of persons who got that $600 extra have more than a bit stashed away. They should have and anyone who blew through sometimes well over > $1k per week probably deserves what's coming to them. People knew (or should have known) that bennie was only going to last until end of July and planned accordingly.
Interestingly bank deposits are at an all time high, and that data is known to Federal Reserve and elsewhere in government. Thus GOP may be calling bluff as what happened when they refused last time to keep extending UI benefits enacted in Great Recession. Wait and see what happens in one or a few months. In that instance GOP was pretty much correct; economy didn't fall off a cliff, and world didn't come to an end.
What did happen is tons of people either didn't bother looking for work, and or turned their noses up and offers they felt were beneath their dignity were now SOL. They had to scramble to find anything to bring in money once those unemployment checks stopped.
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