People working those jobs are exploited and abused but are chastised for “not working hard enough.” Given a choice between working for poverty wages while getting mistreated and earning more money on state and pandemic unemployment, is it a surprise that a growing number of people prefer unemployment? That doesn’t make them lazy. It makes them pragmatic. If employers want workers, they shouldn’t offer them poverty wages, and they should treat them with dignity and respect, not like dirt. And our elected officials in Washington need to raise the anemic minimum wage so that every America…
