Democrat Joe Cunningham wants SC Gov. McMaster to enact $1,200 return-to-work bonus

[TexasTowelie]

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- After calling it “reckless” for Gov. Henry McMaster to end South Carolina’s extra unemployment benefits in the middle of a worker shortage, Democrat Joe Cunningham on Monday suggested another idea: Pay people $1,200 to get back to work.

Cunningham, a South Carolina gubernatorial candidate, called for McMaster to use funds from President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan to pay the one-time, back-to-work bonus to incentivize people to become employed.

Cunningham, a former Congressman from Charleston who is seeking seeking the Democratic nomination for governor, supported a similar measure when he was in Washington.

In a statement, Cunningham said businesses in the Palmetto State are “still reeling from a pandemic that caused new and unexpected challenges.”

Read more: https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/election/article251289314.html

[tirebiter]

1. Good call

Other Democrats should do the same. Republicans too.

[Midnight Writer]

2. How about employers pay people to go back to work?

It could work kind of like that Free Market thing the conservatives idealize.

[ret5hd]

3. Just pay people what the job is worth.

You can’t find someone for $8.00/hr? Try $10/hr.
You can’t find someone for $10/hr? Try $12/hr.
You can’t find someone for $12/hr? Try $15/hr.

Why is it that supply/demand only applies when you want to cut wages or raise prices???

Fuckers.

[Mary in S. Carolina]

4. Republicans deported our workforce

This isn't about unemployment benefits, employees are required to return to work or lose their benefits. The shortage is due to Republicans deporting our workforce. The shortage is not in all segments of the work force, it is in food service, hospitality, construction and various other service industries.

When ever I hear, we are short on staff, I immediately say, very gently and kindly, "I know, deporting the Mexicans was a horrible idea" then I give a sincere smile.