The end of unemployment benefits.
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D3 works for a home healthcare agency. They provide caregivers for people who need somone to look after them at home. The caregivers bathe, keep company, etc. They are NOT nurses, but just someone who provides the basics. Bathing, light housekeeping, transportation, errands.
18 months ago, her company had about 160 caregivers.
Now, they have 60, and staffing is a nightmare.
For the last months or so, they've had about 2 applications per day of people who are looking for positions.
This labor day weekend, a 3 day weekend, they had 60.
Sixty. Twenty per day.
Now, color me cynical, but do you think it's possible that the expiration of unemployment benefits had anything to do with the spike in job applications?
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I'd use this to my advantage and cherry pick.
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Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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@jolly said in The end of unemployment benefits.:
I'd use this to my advantage and cherry pick.
No way they won't.
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Looks like the pandemic is driving employment more than unemployment benefits, at least for the leisure and hospitality sector.
Overall employment in the leisure and hospitality fell about 0.5% in the 26 states that ended benefits, and rose 1% elsewhere.
In Florida, where the weekly average of new cases per 100,000 residents jumped from less than 50 in June to more than 700 in August, employment in the sector declined by 4,000 after rising steadily this year.
In Texas, where new infections per 100,000 hit a low of fewer than 30 in June only to surge above 400 through August, the sector dropped 25,000 jobs after six months of steady growth. Georgia, which also saw a dramatic rise in infections, lost nearly 7,000 jobs in the sector.
By contrast California and New York, where the outbreaks driven by the coronavirus Delta variant have been more muted and health controls have tended to be more strict, added around 33,000 and 7,000 jobs in the sector respectively.
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Pfffft. In my home town, every restaurant, inn, and hotel that has a sign by the road is displaying now hiring messages. And it's been that way for a long time.
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The drive through lines at McDonald’s or Starbucks aren’t tenable to sit through around here. I mean people do, or there wouldn’t be the line, but even getting into one is like trying to find a parking space in the city. You have to be driving past just as a new spot opens up from the street into the drive through lane. Then you have to be willing to wait for 30 minutes plus. There are often signs at the window asking you to be patient and kind to the workers, because at least they showed up.
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The drive through lines at McDonald’s or Starbucks aren’t tenable to sit through around here. I mean people do, or there wouldn’t be the line, but even getting into one is like trying to find a parking space in the city. You have to be driving past just as a new spot opens up from the street into the drive through lane. Then you have to be willing to wait for 30 minutes plus. There are often signs at the window asking you to be patient and kind to the workers, because at least they showed up.
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The COVID-19 “extended” employment benefit ended nationwide, schools reopened, but not much of an employment bump for September.
