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I must still be missing something in the equation. If we assume for the sake of discussion that with/without taxes a person nets $1,500 per month take home. That's still only $18,000 per year which is @ or below the poverty line for households with 2+ members (setting aside the conversation that the poverty level for a single person is set at $12,880 and whether anyone could actually live on that). People are walking away from jobs to live close to the poverty line? And if that is the case, is the problem the unemployment insurance, the wage, or something else?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/05/05/labor-shortage-inflation-white-house/I'm also reading interesting stuff about lumbar. Certainly a lot of talk about the large increase in lumbar price effecting housing and construction projects. Initially, I believed this was tied to lack of supply. But that, apparently, isn't the whole story. There's huge stockpiles of raw lumbar available right now. But in the initial pandemic, mills didn't believe their product would be needed because there would be shutdowns and economic downturn. When available supply at the end supply chain was quickly used, mills and early supple chain folks realized their chance to make $$$ and so are demanding top dollar for their product despite an abundance of materials.
We recent built some raised beds and ended up using cedar instead of treated wood because there wasn't much a price difference.Also, this isn't just lumber, as Goose has mentioned. It is quite a few raw materials.
For sure. I'm wondering if some of those raw materials have a similar story. Regardless, it doesn't appear to be a lack of materials as I first believed. More of a supply chain mess.Re: your beds - if I had to build a house right now, pretty sure I'd choose an ICF structure as it seems comparable in price to lumbar.
The word is lumber.
In MO if you made $50,000 in 2020 you would receive $320/wk or $1376/mo unemployment insurance. A person would only have to work 68.8 hours in a month @ $20/hr to earn that. Income tax isn't included in this equation but $50K/yr ~ $25/hr so the math is pretty close.So, either the clients are not offering employees more that 16 hours of work per week or their story is BS.Either way $1376/month is NOT keeping people from taking jobs.
A good lower back is worth the price.
I'm laying on an ice pack right now. No lumberwork for me anytime soon with my lumbar condition. Hopefully it will loosen up for softball so Big Lumbah can hit dingers.
Today's unexpectedly poor jobs report is going to increase concerns that the generous unemployment benefits are preventing people from returning to work. Some Republican governors are pulling their states out of the program and turning the extra $300 per week into bonuses to get people back to work.I'm not sure we are quite at the point yet, but by next month we might be.
Goodness, on expectations of 1 million we couldn’t even muster 300k.At least feds won’t as likely to raise rates.
There's a million jobs out there. Today. Anyone who wants to work tonight's fish fry shift can. We are so far from 'You don't work, you don't eat' it's unprecedented.
While I don't totally disagree, not all jobs are created equal.
Absolutely and to Hards point earlier, it seems everywhere I go there are hiring signs posted. There was a big segment on local news last night saying how hard it is for companies to find employees which for me is an obvious sign that people simply don’t need the money right now because of all the stimulus being pumped out combined with rent/mortgage moratoriums, not having to pay student loans, etc...We’ve unfortunately created this delayed timeline of folks returning to work through unnecessary policy (wouldn’t call it bad) just not needed.