Similar situation in VT.

Post #435,426 by a6l6e6x 7/27/20 4:47:59 PM 7/27/20 4:47:59 PM Reply	Similar situation in VT. In Picking Up Work Here and There, Many Miss Out on Unemployment Check For millions of people, making a living is a cobbled-together proposition. That leaves a hole in the safety net when things turn bad. o o o The economic shock quickly exposed the mismatch between the reality of making a living in 2020 America and the systems built to protect workers. People who rely on paychecks from different employers are already more likely to have shifting schedules and unpredictable weekly paychecks, low hourly wages and the absence of benefits like sick days and health insurance. They are also more likely to be Black, young and without a college degree. And when hard times hit, they are excluded from regular state unemployment benefits. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #435,434 by scoenye 7/27/20 6:41:57 PM 7/27/20 6:41:57 PM Reply	Something does not compute I don't deal with Vermont's unemployment eligibility determinations but AFAIK, the system here is not that onerous. Wages from all jobs are included. Something is missing from the article to make sense of why they used this example in the way they did.
Post #435,436 by Ashton 7/27/20 6:52:31 PM 7/27/20 6:52:31 PM Reply	You possess the Chops--care to pulse the Writer on exactly that allegation? join War-on-Disinfo! ;^>
Post #435,441 by a6l6e6x 7/27/20 11:23:56 PM 7/27/20 11:23:56 PM Reply	I think it is that no job was at least 40 hours. Annie Frodeman often worked 40 hours a week or more — full time by most lights. She just worked them at two jobs. She was working two part-time jobs. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #435,449 by scoenye 7/28/20 7:57:46 PM 7/28/20 7:57:46 PM Reply	That sounds unlikely Wages of all sources are combined to determine eligibility. Hours and number of employers do not directly play into it. {If only full-time workers qualified, half the state would be eligible for ANFC the second they lose a job. VT is a rural state and small farms are going the way of the dodo. Chittenden county, with Burlington as the center, is the only area with a growing economic base. The other 13 counties are generally in precarious condition. If Canada ever opens the maple sugar spigot, we'll really be hurtin'.) Reasons for disqualification: not having worked 4 consecutive quarters in an 18 month base period, not having at least one quarter above a minimum income amount, or having the income of the lowest quarter being less than 40% of the highest quarter. The floor is tied to the minimum wage and is now $2386. (At $10.50/hour, that comes to ~17 hrs/week.) Based on the information available, she likely fell short of the base period. But I think that limitation is similar nationwide as it is part of the pay-as-you-go system. (Other possibility is the 40% trap, but then it looks like one of the jobs is way overstated.) Gory details. They are accurate. I didn't link to the VT DOL because that involves downloading a PDF. (Sad thing is that, overall, I do agree with their premise that the gig crap is toxic and it further undermines whatever is left of any safety nets. It's just that they could have picked a better fitting example, even in VT.)
Post #435,503 by a6l6e6x 7/30/20 10:55:03 PM 7/30/20 10:55:03 PM Reply	Yep, no mention of 40 hours. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #435,435 by Ashton 7/27/20 6:47:23 PM 7/27/20 6:47:23 PM Reply	Yeah ..we are drowned in uncountable [N+] recursive GOTCHA!s ... with few brains in sight or sound. This has the makings of an astronomically expanded Dr. Louis Slotin* caper--be very afraid. " He whose scerwdriver slipped on that near-Critical pile of U blocks. But.. he had the decency, brains + guts to tell people to stand. there! (where they were), as he scribbled 'distances': knowing he WAS DeadManTalking-fershure. (The Beginning or the End was a B&W contemporary movie) ... meaning that: the unwashed got at least a verisimilitude-of: h.t.f. "critical mass" begets Fission (no matter What you'd had in mind--kinda like COVID), eh? Time is Nature's illusion that, everything isn't happening at Once. Actually, it Is. (But our beta-experimental-brainz aren't big enough to contain both 'cases', I wot)

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