By Mike “Mish” Shedlock
Look at the average age of baggers in grocery stores or greeters at Walmart. These people are not working because they want to; they are working because they have to. Demand for jobs is at an all time high while the number of available jobs and the pay scales of those jobs have both collapsed. The employment situation is not only an unmitigated disaster, things are about to get even worse with pending state cutbacks.
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One more issue to add to the mix are the self-employed and s-corp owners that may not be allowed to collect unemployment of any kind. This is a structural flaw in the system that needs to be remedied. Even though s-corp owners must pay themselves w-2 wages and pay unemployment insurance on themselves, they are not allowed to collect unemployment benefits. So much for entreprenurism.