Economy Montana plans to cut unemployment benefits to address severe worker shortage.

Renard said:
Anyone else notice how Yahoo fell into obscurity for a long time and suddenly in the past year they're making a comeback with tabloid-esque clickbait & race-baiting titles. I see what's happening.
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@TidWell disagrees!
 
Roaming East said:
this is just like the drug thing in Florida a few years ago. All this is gonna show is that most people arent living on government unemployment and that the actual problem is that nobody wants to work 40 hours a week for substandard pay.
Then Republicans will go 'well i guess the problem cant be solved' and call everyone a socialist.
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Yeah if you can collect some $$ from government, work less than 40 hours and do some stuff for cash on the side. Thst beats 40 hours by far even if you earn a little less

Repubs need to realize that work conditions at a lot of places suck
 
The entire welfare system needs auditing and reconstruction... Why would lazy people ever work when they can be taken care of for not working?... People who make the effort and who contribute as opposed to leech should be incentivized but instead, single mothers are given more money to create more children, or able bodies men are given money for food instead of being helped to work...

Businesses are hiring everywhere and struggling to find decent workers or workers at all, partly because when a person on welfare takes a job that pays $300+/- a week, they lose their food card and the other free shit so they break even... work and break even or do nothing and make the same amount?

A friend has 200k cash to invest in more properties but can't find decent workers to maintain and manage and upkeep them... Things are not looking good and our "leaders" seem to love nothing more than to make it worse... Good for Montana, a seemingly reasonable place...
 
Let's remember that the states that are doing this are rejecting money from the feds for the express purpose of not giving it to their people. That is not necessarily good policy.
 
I'm confused, Montana's unemployment rate is near pre pandemic lows according to other sites. So sounds like it's just shit low paying jobs nobody wants to slave over, regardless of unemployment bonus
 
We have a few entry level engineering positions open and our candidates have been so-so. Yesterday my manager said we can't think of these positions as entry level and need to find senior engineer level candidates. So he wants me to find senior engineers willing to work for entry level wages...
<YeahOKJen>
 
Beechwood said:
Sounds like the Florida governor will be doing similar. It sounds like a good move. Around where I've live we've all noticed the numerous help wanted signs.

DeSantis says Floridians receiving unemployment benefits will need to start looking for work again


https://www.foxnews.com/politics/de...its-will-need-to-start-looking-for-work-again
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They are having a shortage in the HVAC industry in many states. I would say in Florida HVAC people would be in very high demand.
 
AWilder said:
We have a few entry level engineering positions open and our candidates have been so-so. Yesterday my manager said we can't think of these positions as entry level and need to find senior engineer level candidates. So he wants me to find senior engineers willing to work for entry level wages...
<YeahOKJen>
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Happened recently where I work in our chemistry lab also. One candidate had a Master's degree, 4 years of experience, and gave a really strong presentation. They made them offer, and they countered they wanted a $10k higher salary. Someone balked at that with "that's more than I made when started!", and its like "uhh...no shit. You had a Bachelors, no experience, and you were a shit student. Why should this person be expected to start at what you were started at?"
 
Hadron90 said:
Happened recently where I work in our chemistry lab also. One candidate had a Master's degree, 4 years of experience, and gave a really strong presentation. They made them offer, and they countered they wanted a $10k higher salary. Someone balked at that with "that's more than I made when started!", and its like "uhh...no shit. You had a Bachelors, no experience, and you were a shit student. Why should this person be expected to start at what you were started at?"
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One of our candidates was internal and already at the max pay for this position, but this position has more growth opportunity and bonuses. My Manager balked and was like, omg I can't believe this! The candidates pay was exactly the same, only ours projects a 10% raise. And yes, 86k + 10% is a lot for an entry level engineering position,but the guy has data analytics experience, a great track record with the company and has the fundamentals,he will earn engineer 2 in a year and probably engineer 3 not long after.
 
The problem is always the phase out rates for government support once working.

Many people working low pay in jobs with little opportunity for advancement face higher effective marginal tax rates than billionaires.

I've never been in that situation as we have a considerable minimum wage but due to the nature of government subsidised childcare my wife a cpa would earn about $4 per hour on her 5th workday each week. Of course she only worked 4 days.

While those situations exist, the problem will persist.

Oh and removing government supports are not the answer, shaping them better is.
 
AWilder said:
We have a few entry level engineering positions open and our candidates have been so-so. Yesterday my manager said we can't think of these positions as entry level and need to find senior engineer level candidates. So he wants me to find senior engineers willing to work for entry level wages...
<YeahOKJen>
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hahahahaha. And engineering is such a competitive field to get talent. Non entry level positions take over a year to get someone from my experience.

I get 3-5 emails a week of places begging me to interview just from linked in or indeed profile their algorithms hunt out buzzwords

The two new jobs I’ve taken in last 4 years I was able to lead off with “what are you expecting to pay?” Before even interviewing. So that we wouldn’t be wasting each other’s time.
 
As a Montanan, almost everyone here thinks it's awesome. The only people who have problem with it are the yuppies and hippies who live in Missoula and Bozeman. Mind your own business if you live in any of the other 49.
 
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