Friend's daughter, college grad (biz/accounting), late 20something, was laid off from her accounting job at a manufacturing company in mid-March.

She and her husband have two young kids, both under 3, just bought their first house, don't live extravagantly. She went on unemployment because there were no jobs that paid enough for her to work and pay daycare and drive back and forth.

She just got hired for a secretarial job. She was getting VERY anxious as there are few to no jobs in probably a 20-30 mile radius of our area that are hiring for full-time with benefits AND that pay enough for a person w/kids in daycare to take.

Her unemployment would have run out at the end of July. She and her husband would have had enough to live on and make their house payment but it would have been tight.

Her job provided the insurance for all of them because his job offers insurance but it is extraordinarily expensive for a family, esp. w/young kids. She will get insurance at the new job that covers all of them. (They simply went without for the last 3 months, which was scary).

The one thing they do like to do is eat out, nothing extravagant but they do like to eat out or order out a few times a week at local restaurants. That's not uncommon for many in their age and family situation in our area. Obvs, that was curtailed during her layoff.

The point of this rather disjointed thread is that everyone calling for restaurants/bars/venues to reopen might also want to pay some attention to what happens at the end of this month, when unemployment for a lot of those laid off in March runs out.

"It will force them to go back to work." Maybe. But what if there are no jobs available in their area that they can afford to take? They'll cut back and the places where they will cut back, if they can and haven't already, is with stuff like dining out/ordering out.

That could add another hit and/or further slow the recovery of H/R/I (Hotel/Restaurant/Institutional) demand for #meat and #dairy, not to mention other parts of the economy.