Scott Lemieux

@mjgranger1 How about cutting back on welfare checks.

How's that supposed to help?

Economics 101. Supply and demand. Cut the free money and demand for work will go up.

I kind of can't believe I have to explain this to you, but a person can only qualify for TANF if they work or look for work full time.

Maybe you should've passed Econ 101 before you tried talking with the grown-ups.

always funny when someone is like 'I have the same understanding of this subject as a 19 y/o taking their first class in it, checkmate'

"I'm so out of touch I didn't notice my current demands became actual law 20 years ago"

And you can only be on TANF for five years so like... What's their point, you know?

Why isn't supply and demand working? Serious question. Where I live there are help wanted signs everywhere but wages still low.

The rich are hoarding the money, and unions are almost nonexistent in this country thanks to Ronald Reagan busting up unions?

Yeah but that doesn't answer my question at all. You don't need unions to get a higher wage when restaurants are understaffed. 1/

Many places intentionally understaff to save money. Walmart could hire more workers, but the executives want more money.

Also hell, I work at a movie theater, there was a really busy day back in like May and they told me to stay home and sent people home.

Even though we NEEDED those people. Why would they do that? To save money for renovations we're doing later this year.

The people that take tickets have effectively been unemployed since that day so they can save money.

That sucks. Employers could never pull that shit here. 2 many open jobs so employees would just leave.

The issue is qualifications, mostly.

That's still the employers responsibility. Either train people or offer a higher wage that a) encourage obtaining skills or b) attracts

The mismatch is in very high-skill areas. Few employers could afford to train the equivalent of a BS or Journeyman.

1) No. it's not. It's beyond simplistic to say that's the only skill area in shortage. 2) all labor is skill, it's basically all gap rn

There's a continual near record number of open positions. That's on employers.

When you say "they can't afford to train" that flies in the face of apparently they can afford to continue to be understaffed?

There's tons of info on "the purple squirrel" basically all hiring groups (which are generally woeful in soooooo many ways) want it all.

They want to find the perfect match, who will take low $$$, and that is inefficient and simply mathematically wrong.