jimnyc
07-15-2021, 04:27 PM
Did they really think that people would weigh things, and say on one hand I can get $600 per week sitting at home "working" remotely, or on the other hand, go back to work and make $700 per week? And on the reality hand - truth is that tons made less than the $600, and made more if they stayed home.
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Media Narrative WRECKED! Poll Shows 1.8 Million Turned Down Jobs Because of Government Handouts
A new poll blew apart the media’s year-long gaslighting that extended unemployment benefits weren’t discouraging work.
A new Morning Consult poll (https://morningconsult.com/2021/07/14/expiring-unemployment-insurance/) estimated based on 14.1 million Americans who were receiving unemployment insurance for the week ending June 19 that “benefits reduced the number of accepted job offers by an estimated 1.84 million over the course of the pandemic.” The 1.84 million Americans turned down jobs (https://nypost.com/2021/07/14/1-8m-americans-turned-down-jobs-due-to-unemployment-benefits/) likely because of government handouts. Morning Consult’s survey found that “[m]ost workers receiving unemployment insurance know that their benefits are about to expire, signaling that job acceptance and search practices are likely to change even before benefits actually expire.”
Morning Consult illustrated how unemployment benefits were affecting Americans’ decisions to remain unemployed or get a job:
Forty-five percent of those who turned down a job offer cited the generosity of UI benefits as a major reason why they did not accept the job offer, meaning that over half of the jobs that UI recipients rejected would have been rejected even if they were no longer receiving benefits. Taken together, unemployment benefits directly contributed to 13% of UI recipients rejecting a job offer during the pandemic.
So much for the media’s regurgitated Biden administration talking point (https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/29/opinion/no-unemployment-benefits-do-not-discourage-work/) that unemployment benefits don’t discourage workforce participation. The Boston Globe’s July 2020 editorial was headlined, “No, unemployment benefits do not discourage work.”
Rest - https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/joseph-vazquez/2021/07/15/media-narrative-wrecked-poll-shows-18-million-turned-down
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Media Narrative WRECKED! Poll Shows 1.8 Million Turned Down Jobs Because of Government Handouts
A new poll blew apart the media’s year-long gaslighting that extended unemployment benefits weren’t discouraging work.
A new Morning Consult poll (https://morningconsult.com/2021/07/14/expiring-unemployment-insurance/) estimated based on 14.1 million Americans who were receiving unemployment insurance for the week ending June 19 that “benefits reduced the number of accepted job offers by an estimated 1.84 million over the course of the pandemic.” The 1.84 million Americans turned down jobs (https://nypost.com/2021/07/14/1-8m-americans-turned-down-jobs-due-to-unemployment-benefits/) likely because of government handouts. Morning Consult’s survey found that “[m]ost workers receiving unemployment insurance know that their benefits are about to expire, signaling that job acceptance and search practices are likely to change even before benefits actually expire.”
Morning Consult illustrated how unemployment benefits were affecting Americans’ decisions to remain unemployed or get a job:
Forty-five percent of those who turned down a job offer cited the generosity of UI benefits as a major reason why they did not accept the job offer, meaning that over half of the jobs that UI recipients rejected would have been rejected even if they were no longer receiving benefits. Taken together, unemployment benefits directly contributed to 13% of UI recipients rejecting a job offer during the pandemic.
So much for the media’s regurgitated Biden administration talking point (https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/29/opinion/no-unemployment-benefits-do-not-discourage-work/) that unemployment benefits don’t discourage workforce participation. The Boston Globe’s July 2020 editorial was headlined, “No, unemployment benefits do not discourage work.”
Rest - https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/joseph-vazquez/2021/07/15/media-narrative-wrecked-poll-shows-18-million-turned-down