[HN Gopher] Cutting off jobless benefits is found to get few bac...
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       Cutting off jobless benefits is found to get few back to work
        
       Author : paulpauper
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2021-08-22 17:04 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.nytimes.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.nytimes.com)
        
       | ajay-b wrote:
       | Where does the money come from? Is it that they don't have to go
       | to back to work because of the rent moratorium? At some point you
       | have to buy food and pay the utilities. What else could be
       | stopping people from going back to work?
        
       | bestcoder69 wrote:
       | Hmm reality needs to read Economics 101.
       | 
       | (Alternatively: we'd have to internalize the fact that this
       | happened and use it to guide policy decisions going forward, but
       | I don't think that think tanks will find this option acceptable)
        
       | Proven wrote:
       | NY Times economic analysis: jobless benefits cost nothing.
        
       | randyrand wrote:
       | Instead, people are choosing to become homeless rather than
       | return to work?
        
         | nine_zeros wrote:
         | They have retired, invested (or gambled) in inflation hedges or
         | airbnbing their property out.
         | 
         | No one is really dying to get back into the office in long
         | commutes to report to unfriendly, bad management. For those
         | that could exit, they did.
        
       | neonate wrote:
       | https://archive.is/iQDTa
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       | https://web.archive.org/web/20210822180323/https://www.nytim...
        
       | paulddraper wrote:
       | If you don't have to pay rent...
        
       | missedthecue wrote:
       | If this is true, how are people paying the rent
        
         | voakbasda wrote:
         | Moratorium on evictions?
        
         | pauldenton wrote:
         | https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/03/22/175076784/epis...
         | They're leaving welfare rolls, and getting onto disability
        
       | gfosco wrote:
       | Little early to be making this claim... give it a chance to set
       | in.
        
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