The argument that unemployment benefits is causing people to not look for a job is complete bullcrap.
Have any of you ever been to a job fair lately? Hundreds and hundreds are turning in applications. There just arnt enough jobs.
And a lot of those jobs on Monster are autoposts. Meaning the companies are simply taking applications and arnt really hiring.
“Meaning the companies are simply taking applications and aren’t really hiring.”
That’s happening in The Real World, too. We had nearly 100 people apply for 12 part-time SEASONAL jobs. (April through June; three months!)
Desperate people still call every day asking if they made the cut, and my boss has been done hiring for over two weeks.
This is partially false. I was on another forum where the discussion also centered on the expiration of unemployment benefits. Several of the respondents to the forum stated they did not look for a job because the only ones available were flipping burgers at a fast food joint. And the unemployment paid them more, so why take a greasy job. I have to assume they were telling the truth. There is a certain percentage of any population who will take the easy way, regardless of long term effects.
I can assure you, that receiving unemployment benefits reduces the urge to go back to work.
Is that when they have someone they want to hire but are legally required to list it publicly first?
Ah, the old misconception that the short term unemployment is the same as the long term unemployment. Two very different classes of people. And to answer your question about the job fair, yes, I have been to lots of them recently, to hire qualified candidates.
“The argument that unemployment benefits is causing people to not look for a job is complete bullcrap.
Have any of you ever been to a job fair lately? Hundreds and hundreds are turning in applications. There just arnt enough jobs.
And a lot of those jobs on Monster are autoposts.”
Tell me about it!
Can't be complete bull crap - A husband and wife team flat out tell me they had no intention whatsoever of looking for a job as long as they were getting unemployment compensation. They viewed it as a two year vacation.
Yes, they vote Democrat.