$600 a week MAYBE made sense at the time, but it doesn’t now.
I can’t see going back to zero, however. There’s still 18 million people who are out of work who had jobs in February. They aren’t all just lazy.
600 never made sense. 300 did. 200 does now.
There are a million driving and delivering jobs out there. Don’t like it? Tough luck
Unemployment benefits are largely a joke, even before the covid nonsense... However, if you can’t work because the government won’t let you????????? What do you do?
Not that it matters, even before COVID nonsense, from initial filing to actually getting anything is up to 7 weeks in most states.. with Corona shutdowns overwhelming the system, a lot of folks are going months before they see anything... so its not like they system worked before this crap in most places.
Particularly if you are someone who is living paycheck to paycheck, which unfortunately most folks who need this are/were.
Blindingly giving 600 a week to everyone so that some folks are making more doing nothing than they were working was foolish.
We are still suffering. Our entire industry has been levelled. No—not professional sports, buy the fairs and festival industry. We will not be able to work until maybe next year. the $600/wk plus $167 from the state is something—but barely covers anything that we would make normally. Starvation wages practically-—and we get just two more weeks of the $600 bucks, because it was only for 16 weeks.
The $167/wk ends December 1st. I still have four months to live until we can drive a 700 miles and hope our first event in Henderson, NV will open. Fuel costs themselves will be around a grand just for two vehicles.
Yeah—like this money is keeping me from going to work?