Charade bonuses? Just pay N.C. workers a livable wage

[TexasTowelie]

It is a fact. Unemployed North Carolinians who were forced out of work a year ago as the COVID-19 pandemic peaked are flocking back to their jobs.

The unemployment rate a year ago – a recession-busting 13.5% -- has been reduced to 5%, according to data released last week from the state Department of Commerce.

It is an astonishing turnaround. Citizens have adhered to commonsense health precautions and regulations; federal and state economic policies have worked to keep most workers from the depths of poverty as well as help sustain many businesses.

There are some looking to perpetuate a myth that there are people who aren’t working or looking for jobs but simply continuing to accept government benefits (“paying people not to work” is how these mythmakers like to phrase it).

Read more: https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/editorial-charade-bonuses-just-pay-n-c-workers-a-livable-wage/19692774/

[OldBaldy1701E]

1. Yeah

What is the poverty rate in NC? What is the welfare aid, compared to states that actually try to help their poorest? And, for that matter, what is this hyped crap that WRAL is running? Who are they trying to appease? It looks to me that most of the Tarheel state is just trying to survive. To say that the people are just happily going back to their wage slavery comes off as major rethug garbage to me. As if they want to drum into the population that our screwed and skewered economy is the only one that works best. Garbage.