So they’re saying more jobs are available but people aren’t taking the bait.
Odd in this environment, unemployment still high, people hurting financially, it seems they would jump at the chance for anything. I’ve seen plenty reports of people taking part time jobs just to get by while they keep their fingers crossed for something better.
So now we have a surplus of openings, but nobody being hired. He doesn’t go into detail though, is this because people (who are already hurting) are turning down chances due to insufficient wages? And what type of jobs? Nothing about that. Blue collar labor, high tech, business?
Then there’s regional. Out here where I live there’s nothing to begin with, even in a better economy. I Have to drive 30 miles to the nearest decent size town, that means if I go looking I’m putting a $100 bill in the gas tank every week. Can’t do that unemployed. And the biggest local business just announced they will be shutting down their foundry operation, which has been going for well over 30 years. No word yet how many layoffs, or I missed it.
That floods the local market with people looking, and nothing happening here I know of to offset it. Same thing when I was here before, paper mill shut down, 500 people or so out of work (long before Obama, I think Clinton was just leaving office) Then Lufkin Trailers closed, and no big operations opening around here so we had hundreds of people looking and no jobs available.
This is strange, but not enough detail here to tell what area of employment he’s talking about, what geographical areas are affected most, or what pay scales are affected.
Why take a job when you can make more on the government gravy train.
The biggest tax increases are on those who go from not working to working part time and lose a lot of welfare benefits, or work enough to hit the welfare cliff at $29,000 to lose food and energy subsidies.
There may be so many people on SSDI and other welfare programs that they would rather not work and get 18K per year of benefits than work hard to get 22K in income and break even on 18K after taxes.