Regarding those who think that people don’t want to work because of stimulus checks and Extended Unemployment Benefits:
Tragically, the very people we’ve deemed essential aren’t paid enough to cover their actual essentials. They contracted COVID-19 at higher rates, they died at higher rates. Yet we balk at them for utilizing the very benefits to which they have contributed; benefits created for a time such as this.
It would be more honest to admit what some of us really mean is that they are essential to our lifestyle, but we don’t really care much about theirs, particularly if it inconveniences us.
Karin M. Norington-Reaves, Op-ed: The dangerous mythology about the US labor shortage
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