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niyad

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23. Really? Where, exactly? In the thousands of businesses that went under? And do these mythical jobs
Fri May 7, 2021, 06:26 PM
May 2021

to which you refer pay a living, thriving wage, at companies that actually care about, and protect their employees and their health and safety? With decent benefits and health care? Do they support equality? A woman's right to choose? Is there representation by the employees in decision-making?

I think with the extra 300/wk pay it takes a person to 15 an hour. I know I am getting more than LizBeth May 2021 #1
Not gonna to happen . .. Lovie777 May 2021 #2
You knew this was coming. Why help struggling people who... Guilded Lilly May 2021 #3
The jobs are there. nt doc03 May 2021 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author hamsterjill May 2021 #11
move to hawaii. loads of min wage tourist service jobs...but they defy supply and demand by msongs May 2021 #16
This message was self-deleted by its author hamsterjill May 2021 #26
Not true. My son has still not been called back to work at a Major Wailua (Maui) resort SamsDrink May 2021 #31
one case does not make up for all the help wanted signs in windows on oahu nt msongs May 2021 #33
There are all kinds of jobs being advertized Deminpenn May 2021 #34
This message was self-deleted by its author hamsterjill May 2021 #36
Um, no, just saying there are many businessess looking to hire Deminpenn May 2021 #44
You shouldn't get UI benefits if you are working. MichMan May 2021 #48
Even with the federal supplement to UI benefits, many people are still in financial difficulty Deminpenn May 2021 #50
Sounds like you agree with the Chamber of Commerce that people are refusing jobs to stay on UI MichMan May 2021 #51
I do think some people are making a financial calculation Deminpenn May 2021 #52
NPR just did a story on it. They're all over oldsoftie May 2021 #35
There are signs everywhere around where I live. They are retail and doc03 May 2021 #38
Please point out where in Ohio you can live on $20,800 per year before taxes lonely bird May 2021 #47
Well the minimum wage is $8.80 so apparently doc03 May 2021 #53
$20,800 is $10.00 per hour lonely bird May 2021 #54
no they aren't. the jobs are not there. Trueblue1968 May 2021 #17
What type of work are you looking for? forthemiddle May 2021 #46
Really? Where, exactly? In the thousands of businesses that went under? And do these mythical jobs niyad May 2021 #23
With that wish list, you may as well ask for a pony while you're at it. N/T Jedi Guy May 2021 #59
Why should that not be a given?? Seems to me, and those who advocate for workers, that those are, niyad May 2021 #61
You're about as likely to get that dragon as you are the rest of the stuff on your wish list. Jedi Guy May 2021 #62
Libertarian garbage. ForgoTheConsequence May 2021 #64
No, I just described reality. N/T Jedi Guy May 2021 #65
A lot of factors go into this. PatrickforB May 2021 #37
Well of course they would. SergeStorms May 2021 #5
Even more disappointing than the jobs report is the celebrity apprentice showman, Budi May 2021 #6
Screw the chamber of commerce. One UE report says NOTHING, and the fact JohnSJ May 2021 #7
So, in order to get people to go back to work for starvation wages and no benefits AllyCat May 2021 #8
Ooh! South Carolina and Montana are canceling their federal jobless benefits! Storybook612 May 2021 #9
The cost of doing business changes all the time NQAS May 2021 #10
How to identify a Trumper? Sign out front sez "can't find workers, unemployment pays too much"! machoneman May 2021 #12
they should let people go back to work AND NJCher May 2021 #13
The governments finances are honestly not infinite so without enough to offset that cstanleytech May 2021 #14
yeah, but it's only through september NJCher May 2021 #21
Fuck MOMFUDSKI May 2021 #15
My sentiments exactly! One sided pressure group Tiger8 May 2021 #18
"big corporate chains who pay minimum wage, if that." Jedi Guy May 2021 #60
They have loopholes. Tiger8 May 2021 #63
The chamber of Horrors can go pound sand, maybe they should get unemployment turbinetree May 2021 #19
"chamber of commerce" is no friend of workers. their priority is the businesses. bullimiami May 2021 #20
How about decent pay and benefits? Happy Hoosier May 2021 #22
in my mom's little Ga town, the CoC is in the old jail bldg. i found it appropriate KG May 2021 #24
They want people to come back to work for shit wages. Warpy May 2021 #25
Truth is nobody is entitled to own a business. I_UndergroundPanther May 2021 #27
Instead, we should confiscate the fortunes of the "self-made" billionaires. Midnight Writer May 2021 #28
Shows how the American capitalist system is a house of cards packman May 2021 #29
they are happy to cut benefits of any kind to 1000 people as long as it keeps just 1 person wiggs May 2021 #30
A much better way to stimulate employment is to raise the minimum wage. patphil May 2021 #32
The most important sentence in the OP is Cheezoholic May 2021 #39
The 25% of people who make more money on unemployment than at their jobs Sucha NastyWoman May 2021 #40
College students have never been eligible for unemployment MichMan May 2021 #41
Connect Them Roy Rolling May 2021 #42
Maxrandb calls for the end of the Chamber of Commerce maxrandb May 2021 #43
Fuck these ghouls, fucking parasites on society, profiting off of our hard work... Humanist_Activist May 2021 #45
Maybe the people that are not taking service jobs have Hotler May 2021 #49
Not to mention there's no discussion of WHY workers haven't gone back TexasBushwhacker May 2021 #55
Chamber of Commerce maliaSmith May 2021 #56
There's some kind of disconnect here TheFarseer May 2021 #57
Same here in Michigan MichMan May 2021 #58
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