It's actually quite a bit more. The 1200 (300/week) is tacked onto whatever your actual benefits were before, which is based on whatever your income at your prior job was.
So someone who was already making say, 700 every two weeks with regular benefits (1400/ mo) would have the 1200 tacked onto that, and they'd be making around 2600/ mo.
I'm not debating the argument in this post though. Minimum wages NEED to be increased to 15/ hr minimum imo. No one can live off 7.25-10/ hr. It's ridiculous. People are staying on unemployment and refusing to go back to work because they can finally pay their bills and breathe without worrying about where every penny is going and STILL struggling to pay rent and put food on the table.
The weird thing is one of the locally-owned chains of gas stations in Texas (Buc-ee's for those who care) pays their lowest-paid people $14.00 to $16.00 per hour. Full-time, health care, 401k match. And these are cashiers and people make deli sandwiches.
And they have some of the best pricing on basically everything they sell. The mythical $20.00 hamburger lie about raising wages is a steaming crock of shit.
sapienBob on May 1st, 2021 at 16:27 UTC »
that's because the big chains keep their employees under 40 hours a week to avoid healthcare.
decadekbrah on May 1st, 2021 at 18:16 UTC »
It's actually quite a bit more. The 1200 (300/week) is tacked onto whatever your actual benefits were before, which is based on whatever your income at your prior job was.
So someone who was already making say, 700 every two weeks with regular benefits (1400/ mo) would have the 1200 tacked onto that, and they'd be making around 2600/ mo.
I'm not debating the argument in this post though. Minimum wages NEED to be increased to 15/ hr minimum imo. No one can live off 7.25-10/ hr. It's ridiculous. People are staying on unemployment and refusing to go back to work because they can finally pay their bills and breathe without worrying about where every penny is going and STILL struggling to pay rent and put food on the table.
Bon_of_a_Sitch on May 1st, 2021 at 19:19 UTC »
The weird thing is one of the locally-owned chains of gas stations in Texas (Buc-ee's for those who care) pays their lowest-paid people $14.00 to $16.00 per hour. Full-time, health care, 401k match. And these are cashiers and people make deli sandwiches.
And they have some of the best pricing on basically everything they sell. The mythical $20.00 hamburger lie about raising wages is a steaming crock of shit.