09-29-2010, 03:41 PM
Dakota wrote:
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If you're an entry-level workers then there's no "competition" at all from unemployment benefits because there are no such benefits for that class of people.
People can easily be working for three years at the local 7-11 for roughly the minimum wage. They get laid off. You are saying they can't collect unemployment? They are still in the entry level job market so their next employer is competing with unemployment+healthcare benefits.
Unemployment is based on what you were earning. The figure of $528 is the MAXIMUM one could receive in PA.. Plenty of folks aren't getting that amount, and certainly nobody who was earning minimum wage is.