"People don't want to work anymore"

In my case my nieces dad brings home more on UI. He refuses to work a real job and worked only 3 hrs a day. Be interesting to see what he’ll do when the UI is gone. Oh wait, that’s right. He’ll just go back to expecting FIL to support his family

Just unintelligent, republican rhetoric.

Funny thing is, many, many republicans are getting unemployment. They are hypocrites.

You used to be able to send a hid to daycare with a runny nose or a cough and now you can't. If you were laid off and pulled your kid from daycare, you've lost your spot and need to find a new one. Maybe your parents/elderly relative watched your kids and they died of covid or decided it's not worth the risk to be around young unvaxxed kids.

So, I was unemployed for over a year and I did make about 40.00 more a week on unemployment , but I was incredibly fortunate I didn’t have to pay for my health insurance. If I had not had health insurance I would have had to find a job that offered that, but I honestly can’t imagine what that would have been and it sure of hell would have been something that paid less then my UE.
I went back to work the second we were allowed to reopen, happily.

I work in a pre-K that is classified as a child care and let me tell you our new restrictions are crazy. We have to cut the number of kids we can serve in half and as others have said there are all sorts of expensive mods we have to make. Because most of our employees are part time I am sure they make a lot more with 300 bonus. It is impossible to find staff right now and we have had to shut down 2 weeks of of the 7 we have been open. It is a nightmare for parents. I am sure some parents aren’t going to work because of the uncertainty and unpredictability of having child care.

Most of the jobs posted are for part time work and a lot of the places schedule so you can’t take another job. Why apply for a part time job when you make more on unemployment?

In my state, you can get up to $325 per week in unemployment plus the extra $600 a week they were doing for awhile (it was cut to $300 at the beginning of summer). I know lots of people who were making $900 per week which is more than they were making before the pandemic. So, it’s possible.

Here are a few quotes from an article on the nursing shortage

www.npr.org/2021/08/10/1026577164/hospitals-face-a-shortage-of-nurses-as-covid-cases-soar

Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas and Oregon all have more people hospitalized with COVID-19 than at any other point in the pandemic, and nursing staffs are badly strained.

Miami's Jackson Memorial Health System, Florida's largest medical provider, has been losing nurses to staffing agencies, other hospitals and pandemic burnout, Executive Vice President Julie Staub said. The hospital's CEO says nurses are being lured away to jobs in other states at double and triple the salary.

Staub said system hospitals have started paying retention bonuses to nurses who agree to stay for a set period. To cover shortages, nurses who agree to work extra are getting the typical time-and-a-half for overtime plus $500 per additional 12-hour shift. Even with that, the hospital sometimes still has to turn to agencies to fill openings.

The U.S. is averaging more than 116,000 new coronavirus infections a day along with about 50,000 hospitalizations, levels not experienced since the winter surge. Unlike other points in the pandemic, hospitals now have more non-COVID patients for everything from car accidents to surgeries that were postponed during the outbreak.

That has put even more burden on nurses who were already fatigued after dealing with constant death among patients and illnesses in their ranks.

Parts of Europe have so far avoided a similar hospital crisis, despite wide circulation of the delta variant, with help from vaccines.

In a Honolulu hospital's emergency department, patients have had to wait for beds for more than 24 hours on gurneys in a curtained-off section because there's not enough staff to open more beds, nurse Patrick Switzer said.

"Somebody who's been sitting in the emergency room for 30 hours is miserable," he said.

He described being "in this constant state of anxiety, knowing that you don't have the tools that you need to take care of your patients because we're stretched so thin."

COVID-19 hospitalizations have now surpassed the pandemic's worst previous surge in Florida, with no signs of letting up, setting a record of 13,600 on Monday, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. More than 2,800 required intensive care. At the height of last year's summer surge, there were more than 10,170 COVID-19 hospitalizations.

I haven't read the whole thread yet so maybe jumping the gun or repeating but:

I heard on public radio that states that ended benefits are actually doing worse in getting people to work so I think it's not as simple as that.

26 states ended federal unemployment benefits early. Data suggests it’s not getting people back to work

www.cnbc.com/2021/08/04/early-end-to-federal-unemployment-pay-in-26-states-not-getting-people-to-work.html

Do they check on those things in non-Covid times? From what I read and stated earlier, the unemployment numbers here aren’t much higher now than in February 2020. So if they checked on things like they were supposed to them, they could do it now as well.

Well, here in my town in Michigan, where recreational marijuana is LEGAL, employers are automatically disqualifying potential employees by drug testing for marijuana. Alcohol users are free to apply, though. No testing for what they do on their free time.

There is even a huge shortage of truck drivers, which is why there is a shortage of some goods in stores. The article does state that some drivers did come back when their unemployment benefits expired, but many are finding they like working closer to home so they are opting for jobs in manufacturing or construction.
www.yahoo.com/finance/news/us-xpress-ceo-driver-shortage-trucking-industry-202632404.html

ETA - I think this pandemic and the shutdowns have really changed a lot of people's perspective on work/life balance. 

I think people made changes to their lifestyle during Covid such as eating out less, coloring their own hair, no manicures, no movies, less need fir a work wardrobe, less gas, less tolls. All this really adds up. Couples with 2 wage earners probably decided that it wasn’t worth going back.

College students went back home to their parents so incurred a lot less.

People basically figured out that they could live on a lot less.

In our family my dil worked in retail (Walmart actually)... she worked days cuz son works nights... when covid hit and kids came home from school she quit her job.... my sons job pays the big bills and has their insurance... so she went on unemployment... in Texas they were giving food stamps to every family that had school age children...

So the unemployment and food benefits paid what she lost in wages...

Now they are using the child tax credit and son is putting in some overtime while dil has become a stay at home mom...

She wont be going back to work until the school situation is stable...

Aren't you in Michigan? If so, our max unemployment compensation is $362 per week. With an additional $300 per week, that works out to $662 per week or $16 per hour. And you still have to pay taxes on unemployment. $28 per hour works out to a gross pay of over $1100 per week.

My daughter was on unemployment for a little bit late spring/early summer. She was working 45 hours a week at $11 per hour in a fast food restaurant so around $525 gross a week. Her qualified unemployment benefit was $182 per week based on her work history. With an extra $300 per week, she made $482 per week on unemployment. So the extra $300 didn't even hit her gross pay at her old job. People who work low pay jobs, do not qualify for the maximum unemployment benefit for the state.

I'm really tired of hearing this argument. If I was laid off right now, $362 + $300 extra wouldn't even come close to my gross wage. There are a lot of people on unemployment who aren't low income workers. The fact is, that after our last recession which devastated a lot of people and no jobs were to be had, they should have re-evaluated the unemployment system to make it more equitable. This extra $600 and the extra $300 was a band-aid on a broken system. If I lost my job, I would lose everything (just like I did in 2009) even with the extra $300. Unemployment should have been addressed after the last recession and made more fair to begin with. $362 per week is a joke for a professional. My ex and I both lost our jobs during the last recession. You think food service or retail would hire someone with my educational background? And then do you honestly think I would make enough money to support us? We lost our house, our cars, everything. And had to start completely over. I had to temp for 2 years before I found a permanent position and still I had to take a pay cut to what I was making pre-recession.

I'm really tired of people beating people up over the extra $300 per week.