it's a political move, nothing else.

I would remind Dear Ellen that unemployment is at a 60+ year low. THERE ARE ALMOST NO JOBS. Thank Ya' Biden!

She might want to read her bible too, the one I assume she thumps instead of reading.

are either very low level income or the applicants not qualified.

Hard to get a public interaction job when you don't have a place to bathe . . .

All kinds of jobs. Help wanted signs are everywhere. People without degrees need jobs, too. I think unemployment is around what it was pre-covid. And, thankfully, many businesses are raising the minimum wage for their employees by choice.

My own personal experience is that a degree can be and often is a roadblock to employment.

So many of the help wanted signs are for food service and other customer related positions. I had a MS and couldn't get a job as a McDonald's manager because I was 'Overqualified'.

It's a matter of applicant to position match. If you can't get transportation or have wardrobe, you're not a match. If you're laid off from NASA (or Twitter) you're not a match for stocker at the Megamart.

That's why the minimum income makes sense. In either case body and soul are kept together until a match can be made.

We can't apply directly with the company in a lot of cases. Have to go through some third party app and answer a bunch of unrelated questions to the position and never hear back from them. That's one problem. But I am personally seeing more work being done simutaneously on infrastructure than at any other time in my life. I am very happy about that.

they don't buy stocks, etc. They put it back in the economy. If they're living paycheck to paycheck, they're just making their bills. Definitely not living high on the hog. God forbid they have a medical emergency or car problems or roof leak. Promotes less crime, too, if you think about it. Less suicides, less alcoholism, less domestic violence, etc. Imho

Whereas, spending $12 million to ship migrants 3/4 of the way across the country to own the libs is a good investment of Texas tax-dollars. Damn, it must be really draining to be so stupid. No wonder they're so angry all the time.