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The thing about generous UI prolonging joblessness is that 1) study after study has said that’s not the case in this recession because there are few job offers to turn down, and 2) generous UI-induced longer jobless spells lead to better matches/higher wages in post-layoff jobs. https://twitter.com/josephzeballos/status/1355896776415391747
If you can afford to feed your family and pay your rent while job searching, you’re more likely to be able to take the time you need to find a job with fair wages, good benefits, and a match for your interests, skill set, and experience level.
If you’re forced to survive on pennies while job searching, you’ll take the first job that pays nickels.
That can set you back for years, across the board in terms of income, benefits, seniority level, and debt.
That can set you back for years, across the board in terms of income, benefits, seniority level, and debt.
During TGR, Black workers, on average, were unemployed 5 weeks longer than their white peers.
Want to know what perpetuates racial wealth and income gaps? Forcing long-term unemployed workers of color into jobs that pay less than what they made before being laid off.
Want to know what perpetuates racial wealth and income gaps? Forcing long-term unemployed workers of color into jobs that pay less than what they made before being laid off.
This recession has hurt women of color more than any other group. Cutting off support for jobless workers and continuing to widen gaps in childcare accessibility and affordability will put WOCs in a hole so deep they’ll be set back for years. All while white male workers thrive.
Extended & expanded UI benefits are an economic justice issue. They’re a racial & gender justice issue. They’re a macro & micro issue.
There should be no arguments for reducing them to force workers into unsafe work with unfair wages or trap them in a vicious cycle of poverty.
There should be no arguments for reducing them to force workers into unsafe work with unfair wages or trap them in a vicious cycle of poverty.
