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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
Florida's unemployment rate is very low. That means most people who are "working people" are already employed. Florida has a high retiree rate, and a LOT of people have fled the north to move to Florida to retire in the past year. They've chosen to not return to work at all, and they're not getting unemployment or bonuses for staying home. They're retired, taking early pensions.
A lot of stores had closed down completely, gone out of business. All of THOSE employees have had a year of unemployment and career advancement educational opportunities. MOST of them have found jobs either in the same sector, or moved up to better jobs in other fields.
The rinky dink minimum wage stores and fast-food joints now have to compete to get employees, because most of those employees are seeking better elsewhere - and are getting better elsewhere. For instance: Publix isn't suffering for lack of employees. Why? Because they start their crew out at better than minimum in the first place. Plus a modest benefit package that doesn't exist anywhere else, including stock options for part-timers.
Dunkin gives you a free cup of coffee during your shift, and you have to buy your shoes from an approved online vendor. Why would anyone WANT to get paid minimum wage to work at a place like that, when they can work at Kohl's and get a sign-on bonus, you can buy your shoes wherever you want, and you get a discount on whatever you buy in the store?
People ARE back to work. They've been back to work. They've just chosen to not work at places where they felt they were treated like dirt.
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Anything to back up those claims?
Oh, and almost no one is working for minimum wage, nor have they been for some time...
"In 2020, very few workers earned the federal minimum wage of $7.25, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics: Just 247,000. Another 865,000 earned less than that, probably due to a combination wage theft and exceptions for tipped workers and others."
"In 1980, when the federal minimum wage was $3.10 ($9.86 in 2019 dollars), 13% of hourly workers earned the federal minimum wage or less. Today, only 1.9% of hourly workers do. The number of federal minimum wage workers has decreased from 7.7 million in 1980 to 1.6 million in 2019. This is partly due to states establishing higher minimum wages than the federal level."
Minimum wage in America: How many people are earning $7.25 an hour?