Loren Scott
Loren Scott
assistance benefits checks fema housing looking offer people ready wait work
It's been very frustrating to many private-sector businesses: They know there are people out there who don't have jobs, but when they go and offer them positions, people say they are not ready to work yet. People are looking at their FEMA checks and their housing allotment and their unemployment benefits and they are saying, 'Hey, I am going to wait awhile.' They are getting enough assistance that they don't need to go back to work.
replace
It's going to take decades, plural, to replace those homes, which is not encouraging.
according heroic national optimistic
According to the National Homebuilders Association, that is a heroic assumption. We're really being optimistic with that figure.
rate
We have exported a lot of our unemployment rate to other states.
almost mother twice
We thought that was the mother of all recessions. This is almost twice as large.
bring improvement maybe slight
We have slight improvement in employment, maybe enough to bring down unemployment three- or four-tenths of a percent, but not enough to bring it down this far.