- June 11, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Former CKE Restaurants CEO Andy Puzder says the driving force of slow jobs growth is that unemployment benefits are ‘paying people not to work.’
Former CKE Restaurants CEO Andy Puzder, while discussing the record number of job openings in the U.S. economy on FOX Business’ “Mornings with Maria,” said people not returning to work is “not rocket science.” He argued that “if you pay people not to work, they’re not going to work.”
JOB OPENINGS SPIKE TO RECORD 9.3M, QUITTING PACE NEVER HIGHER AS BUSINESSES SCRAMBLE TO HIRE
ANDY PUZDER: The biggest impact is from paying people not to work. In case there are progressive economists listening, I want to say if you pay people not to work, they’re probably not going to work. So we end up with 7.6 million fewer people employed than we had before the pandemic. But we’ve got 9.3 million job openings, which is a record high. March was a record high with 8.3 million, which I thought was a huge number.
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