Wages
In this part of Florida the overriding reason for wages to be what they are or what the large entertainment companies are paying, basically Disney and universal set the wage scales. Everyone else has to match what their wages are or people will work for Disney and universal. There is no economic slump as they were plenty of jobs to go around that people simply are not taking. If you look at the advertisements for jobs there are hundreds of well-paying jobs for truck drivers that will literally pay you a $5,000 bonus and 100,000 a year to drive just the truck, there are thousands of sales jobs and there are tens of thousands of jobs for restaurants that are reopening which might have a very low hourly wage generally have good tips. The problem with the extra money on top of unemployment is the same problem Russia had when you screw around with your basic economy by mandating wages or creating restrictive laws, or giving out free money, there are many unintended consequences
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