How Are All These Unemployed People Paying Their Bills?

Jessica Wildfire’s article got me wondering about this. Here in the midwest, 99% of fast food, restaurants, stores are hiring. There has been a mass exodus of retail workers.

I have one question. How are they paying their bills? I know in my family we would lose our home if my husband and I didn’t work every day. I am not understanding if they have a. moved in with parents b. work for Doordash, etc. c. inherited money.

The government has stopped the pandemic financial help and from what I’ve read, that money would have run out a long time ago, based on average rents, sky-high gas and grocery prices and basic living expenses.

And for the record, my family is NOT part of the rich elite, just average Americans who worked all those crap jobs years ago in our 20's.

I am part of Gen X and we, like boomers, had to work for our living. I grew up in a blue-collar family, where my dad went to work every day at General Electric. He was not able to just quit and decide his job wasn’t good enough for him. He worked there for over 40 years until retiring in the 90's.

He bought generic, reused plastic containers, hardly ever got takeout, did all the home repair work around the house and was very frugal until he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. He was my example of…