For some people, unemployment benefits outweigh what they were being paid before to work. This is becoming a problem for business owners looking to reopen. CNN's Kyung Lah reports. #CNN #News
Woman makes more from unemployment than when she worked
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Im still waiting for unemployment. Its been a struggle.
@Just listen I would rather uplift and encourage one instead of insulting and ridiculing
The website is a mess try to search for the Covid19 option cause they did the same to me and I need it to apply again in a different section of the website, good luck
This administration can’t get out of it’s own way. I’m so sorry, it has to be so stressful. Hope you are back to work soon and you are STILL entitled to that unemployment $$$$$.
@Just listen how about you share other options instead of insults. Some of us have always worked & never been unemployed or had to rely on government assistance. This crap is crazy!
Brendan O’Donoghue
Florida is the worst. 50 out of 50 states dead last to pay. I was shut down from march 21 to may 9. Our system is so broken that when i reported on my last payable week that i had partially returned to work and said what money i earned it still will not let me close out the week so it says my pua is pending until i claim the week and you cant get anyone working for unemployment who will look up your claim to fix the problem. Florida is only giving qualified pua $125 week against the labor dept mandate but who Do you tell lolol. Catch 22
Their are a lot of us making 1/3 of what we were before unemployment….
Hazard pay! HEY FAKE NEWS YOUR EXAGGERATIONS OF COVID HAS LED TO MASS CLASS-WARFARE !!!
I bet that stings a little.
Hey all caps you are ignorant as well as loud. FO
Get a better job maybe?
@Emperor Kim Jong-un Are you being sarcastic supreme leader? He’s saying hes making 1/3 now on unemployment then he did at his old job because the lockdown shut down his job.
Goes to show how out of touch the gov’t is with how much money it’s citizens actually earn.
@Sherry Morris
Hey wasn’t Bernie pushing for $15 an hour, he wasn’t paying his workers $15 an hour but when they demanded it he put them on part-time work, if Bernie couldn’t afford to pay them what makes him think others can
Or politicians love being the tit for greedy people so they can get more votes
Goes to show how uneducated people are about how economics work when they make comments like you.
@codfishkiller2013 you get your unemployment wage plus $600 per week under the current bill. If you qualified for the max benefit you would be bringing in $950/week. A person making less than $100,000/yr with kids also got $1200 for themselves and $500 for (each) kid under 17 in stimulus money. And if you signed up for any other government assistance you wouldn’t have to claim that stimulus money as income.
NO! It shows how out of touch stupid people are. If you have NO SKILLS then you don’t make good money PERIOD! That’s why it called an “ENTRY LEVEL” job!
Maybe people should pay their employees a living wage
@The Tiny Trex As a Millennial, I apologize for my generation. Some of us actually understand a hard day’s work.
Maybe people should learn a trade or get an education and stop having kids while only making $20K a year.
@Just listen So who’s going to do those jobs then? If everybody in this dream world of yours, started a business. Who is going to work in these businesses? You sound like you haven’t out much thought in this response. It’s a knee jerk reaction with no real thought behind it.
Maybe they should acquire better skills in order to get a better job… “bowling alley” employee really she trying to love a adult life with a teenagers job.
You can’t complain when you’re trying to live a adult life with a teenaged job. You look silly 😜
When this is the case, it should be painfully obvious that something ain’t right.
@Lane Kelly she’s the opposite of entitled.
people are not FORCED to go back when it is not safe, and for the first time in years low income people may experience a little sense of relief (if only for 2 – 3 months) – that can’t continue. – At leas the rich and big biz are getting handouts to the tune of TRILLIONS at every corner.
Republican Senators looking to end $600.00 weekly boost to unemployment July 30. This is devastating to Americans as state unemployment only pays 40% of ones regular income and with 50,000,000 unemployed due to this pandemic it’s far to early to end it .
Unemployment in June to spike to 35% (Data: Goldman Sachs).
We don’t know yet if these jobs are coming back. Discontinuing the unemployment COVID19 boost is dangerous and counterproductive to achieving a healthy, safe and beneficial re-opening, as COVID19 has killed 100,000 Americans in 70 days. With the re-opening these number are likely going to move up quickly.
Please be safe.
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IWashMyOwnBrain
Moron.. it goes to show Employers need to pay more!!!!!!
@Kawaii Potato Then men get stimulus checks than women paid for in extra taxes and cut wages!
TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN.
SCUMBAG
Yep. those million dollar Corps sure ran off with the money for small businesses. They are fully supportive of grifting. Even though this is hardly a grift.
@Classy Lady The same big corps who under pay their workers, nickel and dime consumers, and CEO’s that give themselves huge bonuses. Capitalism at work.
Hell yea
Yeah, take those hundreds of dollars and run to the liquor store! LMAO
First of all, no one can make a decent living from those types of jobs! Most of us have to work more than one job just to make ends meet & that’s not even a guarantee. Second, WE ALL NEED HEALTH CARE! Those lower paying part time jobs do not provide health care & when your paycheck goes towards basic living expenses, there’s not enough left over for health insurance!! Not to mention, we’re still in the middle of a pandemic. Going back to work without enough testing, without a way of treating this virus, is too high a risk to endanger ourselves, our loved ones & everyone else.
There used to be a presidential candidate that had a plan for that…. Before he was bullied into dropping out. Who was that again?
Sounds like they need better jobs then. Or perhaps get educated. Heath coverage generally comes from those things. I’m not sure I should pay for other people who would rather not better themselves. You don’t pay for the groceries of the people behind you… You know, we all gotta eat…
@Alt Delete Or maybe they need to stop believing the propaganda that cheaper goods are good. It is not good, it is only good for the people who aren’t sacrificing their wages for those goods.
Yes, prices need to go up. If they shouldn’t then let’s just erase the past 30yrs of housing inflation. It’s why so many people can’t afford houses, because we’ve allowed a certain group to get a premium for their goods while expecting everyone else to sacrifice wages for cheaper goods.
@Deauq E Or the MSM didn’t tell the facts about the other candidates, but tried to smear that candidate as much as possible. Now they want to try and put a guilt trip on people to vote “blue no matter who” when they knew all along. It was all to get what they want and they are still doing it.
Alt Delete: So you never go to restaurants? We don’t have robot servers yet – who serves your food? You think the restaurant owner should do that him or herself?
“It is a limited amount of money for a limited amount of time that will run out”. Then they will have to compete with a lot of other unemployed people .
@joan baczek – That was very wise because when tax time rolls around next year, everyone receiving those EI benefits or any other type of benefit will no doubt have to pay the tax. It would be wise of your son to save a little money now so when that happens he will have the money to pay.
don’t hire any of them back, if they quit to take Unemployment…
He would be disqualified if he said no
No, he never invested in roads, schools, or infrastructure. Our taxes pay for that. He stole from the American government and wants robots to run his warehouses!
@Billy Cole II They are young and do not understand that jobs may be hard to come by. Like everyone they deserve a chance. Sometimes life lessons come hard.
Pay needs to go up to get people incentive to be working again. Wages are a joke!!
@Bad Bird and that is exactly what people are doing staying on unemployment until a better job comes along
Free market supply and demand
she works part time in a bowling alley
or maybe just dont give them free money to stay at home
Here’s an incentive… no lazy freeloader handouts.
I would be too but I apply every week since I lost my job as a cook and it’s still being denied. I have had near 0 in the bank since the stimulus check…and I got kids.
Employers are cheap and won’t pay fair wages. #Unionize now!
Only a person who has never been successful in their life with say something as stupid as that
Only a rich out of touch person says something like that. 50% of people make 30k or less a year, while housing inflation skyrockets? Na, I think it’s time for the rest of the economy to catch up with the inflation of housing. The only people that gain from cheaper goods are the people not sacrificing their wages for them.
Said the loser with no skill
Reduce wages is better, wages currently are way to high.
Why the hell are you telling it!!! Damn!
Ikr let us get our money in peace 🙄
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LOL it’s no big secret!
It’s always that one but all jokes aside I’m not making more off unemployment than I did with my job but I was tradeshows. 20,000 in a crowd is gone for awhile & truthfully I don’t feel safe going back to work especially if my option is a grocery store etc risking my life w/ no insurance for 10.00 hour
Salary has been stagnate for years with respect to production and inflation.
Hazard pay! HEY FAKE NEWS YOUR EXAGGERATIONS OF COVID HAS LED TO MASS CLASS-WARFARE !!!
Marcos Filho and what do you blame your stupidity on?
Yes, if you work at Dunkin Donuts!
Only under the Clintons and Obama time. President Trump got the pay rate up. Wake up people and stop listening to your fake news.
Except for under Trump, in which it has gone up for the first time since the 1970s
Time to start paying people a living wage 😷✌️
Time to start getting a better job?
Get a real job and you’ll earn a LIVING WAGE!
Well I mean it shows as minimum wage goes up so does cost of living, and products so no thanks
Wages are too high.
Meanwhile Senators get a $40,000 bonus just to decorate their offices… Thats more than the average Americans yearly salary
I heard every member of Congress got $54,000 (pandemic payment)!
Republican Senators looking to end $600.00 weekly boost to unemployment July 30. This is devastating to Americans as state unemployment only pays 40% of ones regular income and with 50,000,000 unemployed due to this pandemic it’s far to early to end it .
Unemployment in June to spike to 35% (Data: Goldman Sachs).
We don’t know yet if these jobs are coming back. Discontinuing the unemployment COVID19 boost is dangerous and counterproductive to achieving a healthy, safe and beneficial re-opening, as COVID19 has killed 100,000 Americans in 70 days. With the re-opening these number are likely going to move up quickly.
Please be safe.
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Amen.
Gmail Email pretty much forcing people back to work wether or not they have safe conditions!
y’all are way to loud 🤦🏽♂️ hush 🤫
Bring attention to how grossly underpaid people are. Some of these people have been working two three jobs and still not making that much. It’s a Reflection of greed with in the companies they work for
Right
Does your boyfriend whisper that in your ear?
The problem is we’ve been too quiet.
@Classy Lady well also goes to show like I have been saying. The economy is not all that great if people have to work 3 jobs just to make it! Smh
Maybe the title should be: “wages are obviously way too low”.
Maybe the title should be Investment Banks and Hedge-funds Make More From Taxpayer Bailouts Than They Did Under Their Precious Free Market System.
Why do Leftists always look to others to make the life they want instead of doing it themselves?
@Molon Labe sounds like what right wing people do all day blame everyone else for their abandon meth infected coal mining town
Title should be “unskilled workers get paid more for the next couple months and unemployment dries up and they forget they have to pay that money back on taxes at the end of the year”…
Goes to show what side CNN is on. Not a mention about how wages are too low. Not even a suggestion employers should raise their salaries.
CNN wants us all back in the mines.
here’s an idea PAY YOUR EMPLOYEES A LIVING WAGE! … U.S system is broken.
Here’s an idea go back to school to get better skills to get a better job..
@Lawrence Harris another idea : live in the real world : a single parent does not have the money or time to do that. They have to keep working jobs and do overtime , just to pay rent and food. Yes, the U.S. system is broken.
Agreed .but than do not moan when everything costs more as a consequence
Kicked out of a job that paid substandard wages without a second thought, concern or worry. Two months later you are surprised the employees give as much S#@T about your company and the wages you are ready to pay as you demonstrated you did about them. It takes a pliable morality to wrench that thought process inside your head…
Yep, was thinking about this earlier. These businesses have sob stories about how employees won’t come back because they haven’t got to. Yet when everything was going good for the company they didn’t give a damn about you.
Blame unemployment or blame people opening too early?
I wouldn’t want to work in a restaurant now.
Do you want to encourage people to make minimum wage?
And that’s what they are leaving out Alot of people don’t feel safe going back to work yet! Smh
Minimum work minimum pay is what they say
JETPAC MOZi: And yet this isn’t true. These restaurant jobs aren’t easy…no surfing the internet and checking emails at work like so many ppl do in office jobs, and the schedules and hours are irregular, which can interfere with regular life.
The problem is that restaurants have slim profit margins to begin with…it takes years of operating before a restaurant starts making a profit, and that’s driven by volume (or alcohol sales). It’s not just employers not feeling safe…customers don’t feel safe yet either. Restaurants are opening or will open soon but they won’t be doing the same level of business as before for a while. Quite a few won’t make it despite being allowed to open.
I’m also thinking of prices…restaurants might need to charge more but with so many ppl out of work who’ll be able to afford to eat out? Dark times ahead any way you look at it 😳