Unemployment benefits are not creating a worker shortage.

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8. Simple: If you get paid more not to work, you probably won't work

Here in MO, the regular unemployment + the extra unemployment comes to around $600/week, or $15/hour for a 40 hour week.

Since most of these jobs are part time, this would be more than people would make if they worked - even if they DID make $15/hour, which most wouldn't.

It's just human nature to decide not to work when the alternative is less financially rewarding.

These shortages won't go away until the extended unemployment payments stop. And when they do, all these lower-tier workers will take a pay cut to go back to their poorly-paid jobs...capitalism at its finest!