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food service that normally pay minimum wage. The minimum wage in Ohio is $8.80 and employers are
offering more than minimum wage as high as $12 that I know of. If you get $300 and whatever the unemployment is
you will get more than working for even $12 considering most of those jobs are not full time. I can see why people don't
want to work and make less. But if those jobs were filled it would definitely drop the unemployment significantly. The cost of living
in this area is far lower than many areas where $15 is the minimum wage. Even $10 here would give a person a better
standard of living than in California or NYC. The fact is even before COVID they were having trouble finding workers, then
when the unemployment rate was 3.5% they were calling it a labor shortage and were worried about wages going up and inflation.