Over 11 Million Americans Are Still On Pandemic Jobless Benefits (Despite 9 Million Job Openings)

zerohedge2021-06-10

Initial Jobless claims continued their slide week-over-week (from 385k to 376k), but remain near pandemic lows (but are still almost double those pre-pandemic levels)...

Source: Bloomberg

However, there are still over 15 million Americans on some form of government dole...

Source: Bloomberg

And despite over 9 million job openings, over 11 million Americans remain on some form of pandemic-specific unemployment benefits...

Source: Bloomberg

As the chart shows,there has been very little movement OFF the pandemic-based dole in over a year.

Will the Democrats ever allow those couch-sitters to be free of government handouts?

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  • SandDust
    2021-06-11
    SandDust
    Enough jobs but no one want to work. Please like and comment 
  • paxxie
    2021-06-10
    paxxie
    like and comment 
  • OMTTrading
    2021-06-10
    OMTTrading
    Why should they go back to their low paying, dull, boring jobs? Increase wages and you'll see how quickly unemployment drops. 
  • MZ39
    2021-06-10
    MZ39
    Interesting
  • JemPro
    2021-06-10
    JemPro
    Wow so insightful!
  • Jiekai
    2021-06-10
    Jiekai
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