[ineedasername]

The $600 extra is nationwide, every state. If they aren't getting it, maybe they were unemployed too far before the crisis?

Otherwise, a vast # of fired workers come from relativy low paying service I dustry jobs. Even $300 capped plus the extra $600 works out to about $47,000 per year. More than most service industry workers. Also, about 35 states have caps at $400 or higher. The most impacted states are as high as $600-$700. If you're capped in one of those states and getting the extra $600, that works out to about $62,000/ year.

Please note I'm not saying this is wrong to do. I don't think a lot of people would stay on those short term benefits if they could get a steady job. But instacart is far from a steady job, and any temporary I crease in pay from the surge in demand will eventually go away. Not worth giving up those unemployment benefits while they're still available without a better job guarantee.

[pkaye]

I thought the extra $600 is only for 4 months.

[ineedasername]

Yep, 4 months. I don't mean they'll actually get that annual salary, just that if they were making less than that annual salary before losing their job then their weekly pay will be more with unemployment + $600. As such, there's no reason to take an unsecured gig-worker job without benefits and with a higher risk of exposure. This is what I means when I say that the millions of new unemployed workers might not be flocking to instacart's 250k hiring binge.