The Unemployment Line: COVID-19 Edition

Eeyore said

The games that are played with unemployment are infuriating. In Indiana it seems like the questions change every week. They're telling us that they have waived the requirement to look for a new job, but every week I get flagged because I don't submit proof that I have been looking for a new job.

Then you get politicians climbing up on their soap box saying things like, "maybe if people didn't eat avocados, they would have six months of salary in the bank for emergencies." And then they turn around and give trillions of dollars in bailouts to corporations that just received one and a half trillion dollars in tax cuts just a year ago. Maybe if those corporations hadn't made campaign contributions they would have had six months of expenses saved for emergencies.

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Yeah that’s my biggest problem with the “people shouldn’t get more in Unemployment than they were making while working!” Crowd.. .. #1) it’s proof that lots of people have been criminally underpaid, barely getting by on slave wages for years.. and #2) if you’re gonna get outraged about Joe Schmo on the street getting $800/week unemployment, I’m okay with you being outraged IF, and only IF- you have an equal amount of outrage, or even MORE outrage, for the Corporations who are also recovering the equivalent of ‘Unemployment payments’ to the tune of Billions of dollars.. You cant have it both ways, you cant rage at the single mom making $30k a year who’s finally getting a little bit of relief, while not being JUST AS ANGRY at the corporations doing the exact same thing.

/rantoff