re: Return to work at reduced hours vs staying on unemployment

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There's a difference between minimum wage bums not wanting to go back to work and hard workers being screwed out of fair pay.

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This is a government created crisis. Sadly they dont pay, the taxpayer does.

If I am an employer trying to open back up I will not expect my staff to want to come back at half the hours they were at before. Even with no stimulus or CARES that is still BS.

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I would be on board with this if it was also opened to those in the same household as medically-documented high-risk people as well.

I know this is ripe for abuse, but to do otherwise will create a huge crack for people to fall in IMO. We could intelligently create oversight for this.

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this exact scenario is causing me a huge panic attack currently. My work is ok with my medical reasons to stay home, my doctor is fine with documenting it, but I hope and pray my husband's work would be agreeable. He can work 100% from home but it is NOT his company's norm prior to this pandemic.

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quote: the $600 a flat amount regardless of what you earned before or what state is also paying?


Yes

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Well that is F'd up. Probably what I ranted some for Trump signing it, but I hadn't looked it up since.

Also probably motivating a fair amount of the people complaining about reopening economy.

Using Texas scenarios A person who used to make $31,200 a year, but now making weekly what would be $58,240. Plus $1,200 one time payment.

Person making $62,400 or higher now making $58,240 plus $1,200 one time payment.

Who is more motivated to push going back to work full time? Who is more likely to vote for candidates pushing universal income this November?

Are the people with "pay increases" due to unemployment still allowed to skirt rent payments? If anything they should be held even more responsible for their bills. Their disposable income went up.

The people seeing a decrease in their disposable income when filing unemployment due to shutdown and who are paying a mortgage get forbearance and lump sum payment at the end with less money.

These things always seem to crap on middle class. They should have limited increase to what was being earned before and slid that money to being closer to making those whole who were making $60,000 to $75,000 a year before laid off.

Make more people in middle class closer to being whole by not paying anyone more than they made, and also then deduct from combined state and fed what they earn each week or what employer offered to them to work. No games to keep fed payment. No pay raises through government unemployment payments.