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Originally Posted by Tbugs
Yoda,
You do speak wisely. An unemployed nuclear engineer who previously earned $186,000 per year would be rather foolish to take a job at McDonald's flipping burgers at $7.50 per hour. Yes, it would get him off the unemployment roles but he would earn much less than on unemployment.
He probably could flip that burger with much more accuracy than a high school student but it would still taste the same (maybe).
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He will never take a job that pays the same or less than 99 weeks of unemployment...and I do not blame him one bit. BUT.. if you keep extending UE benefits, he will never take a low paying job, and worse yet, he may pass up a lower paying job that he should take.