42% of people are making more/same as they were while working 40 hour week at their previous job. It’s time to ween folks off of the extra UE.
Here where i live in NM, they had to pay delivery drivers 50% more just to have staff.
If it weren't for all the college kids here, most of our fast food restaurants and retail services would be understaffed or closed.
There is a famous Native American jewelry shop here that closed for over a month. When people found out, several retired people applied to work there just so it would open again. That's pretty wild to think about.
There was a Subway that closed for 3 weeks because it literally had zero staff, just the owner and his wife.
Local pizza delivery took a major hit too. The Mayor even said if the high school and college kids would not have stepped up, the pizza places would have stopped delivering.