Reply #18: well, no, but subsistence wages are better than nothing

[Yo_Mama]

We have over 9% unemployment and many have lost all unemployment benefits, so first jobs, then wages.

Even the 9.1% unemployment counts people who are trying to survive off less than 20 hours a week.

This is dire - 82 was bad, but jobs rebounded more quickly and people weren't thrown off extended unemployment benefits before there had been very substantial employment gains.

The situation we have now is unprecedented since the GD, and it should not be minimized. For a lot of these people there is virtually no government help at all now.