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Why is unemployment increasing to $800 week during this?

Posted on 3/26/20 at 11:13 am
Posted by lshuge
Member since Sep 2017
822 posts
Posted on 3/26/20 at 11:13 am
Normally it is only around $200 week. I understand the feds are kicking in $600/week.

Why all of a sudden do they recognize that people can't live on $200/wk? During the oil bust in 2016 the laid off workers only got $200/wk. What's the difference now?
Posted by DarthRebel
Tier Five is Alive
Member since Feb 2013
21780 posts
Posted on 3/26/20 at 11:14 am to
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What's the difference now?

Election Year!!!
Posted by dukke v
PLUTO
Member since Jul 2006
206854 posts
Posted on 3/26/20 at 11:15 am to
Pay attention much??????
Posted by magildachunks
Member since Oct 2006
33082 posts
Posted on 3/26/20 at 11:15 am to
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During the oil bust in 2016 the laid off workers only got $200/wk. What's the difference now?






The government didn't shut down the oil industry
This post was edited on 3/26/20 at 11:16 am
Posted by fightin tigers
Downtown Prairieville
Member since Mar 2008
73775 posts
Posted on 3/26/20 at 11:15 am to
$200 should be motivation to go get a new job.

You can have the motivation you want right now. Doesn't matter.
Posted by FlyinTiger93
Member since May 2010
3698 posts
Posted on 3/26/20 at 11:15 am to
$465, in Texas. You could sit home, and pull in $1065 per week, right now.
Posted by TDsngumbo
Alpha Silverfox
Member since Oct 2011
43099 posts
Posted on 3/26/20 at 11:17 am to
Guilt
Posted by YNWA
Member since Nov 2015
6904 posts
Posted on 3/26/20 at 11:20 am to
Unemployment used to be based on your income. The golf course I was an assistant superintendent at closed for a month or two and was eventually sold. I was getting at least $600-$900 every check. I think it was like 60% of your salary. Maybe If you made less you received less. It was never the same across the board
This post was edited on 3/26/20 at 11:21 am
Posted by greygoose
Member since Aug 2013
11617 posts
Posted on 3/26/20 at 11:27 am to
I'm not defending it, but I understand why they are doing it. Layoffs are coming in leaps and bounds. People still have bills to pay. The government fears that the dominoes will start falling ending up with major industries like banks and utilities collapsing.
Posted by highcotton2
Alabama
Member since Feb 2010
9658 posts
Posted on 3/26/20 at 12:05 pm to
quote:

During the oil bust in 2016 the laid off workers only got $200/wk. What's the difference now?


The oil guys that are out of work because of cheap oil now are kind of fortunate for this Corona thing. That’s a bad way to look at it though.
Posted by Mudminnow
Houston, TX
Member since Aug 2004
34157 posts
Posted on 3/26/20 at 12:16 pm to
Im guessing next week is when we'll start seeing the blood bath in oil and gas. Only a few companies have had layoffs so far.
Posted by McCaigBro69
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Member since Oct 2014
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Posted on 3/26/20 at 12:17 pm to
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Normally it is only around $200 week


Five years ago after I got laid off I was receiving $450/week.

ETA: this was in Texas
This post was edited on 3/26/20 at 12:19 pm
Posted by East Coast Band
Member since Nov 2010
63943 posts
Posted on 3/26/20 at 12:20 pm to
The few companies that are running are going to have ahrd time keeping employees, because you can get paid way more to sit at home than actually working
Posted by LSUtoBOOT
Member since Aug 2012
13424 posts
Posted on 3/26/20 at 1:11 pm to
OT worker unemployment $200 per hour, but since they don’t have to work for that then they can’t collect. Pop another bottle of DP and keep going.
Posted by BCBAMA
Southeast Alabama
Member since Apr 2016
850 posts
Posted on 3/26/20 at 2:25 pm to
Hope i’m wrong, but boy did the Democrats outnegotiate the Republicans. Work ethic and pride aside, a large part of the population will choose to sit at home due to making more money that way. Democrats really took advantage of the crisis. I’m very disappointed in DJT. Not often I say that.
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