(10-13-2021 03:29 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(10-13-2021 02:43 PM)BSWBRice Wrote:  What types of cash jobs? You're probably right to some extent, though I'm drawing a blank on what roles might've popped up over the past 18 months.

It is weird that all these low paying roles were filled, COVID hit, and now these workers seem to have disappeared. I don't think the $1800 stimmy is still carrying the day.

Apologies if this has already been hashed and re-hashed; sometimes I skim over some of the back-and-forth.

edit: sentence structure

Food delivery, Uber, lawn care, odd jobs, construction, anything a lot of people do for cash without reporting the cash income. Not saying it is new stuff that suddenly appeared in the last year. Just that somebody making more than $15/hour between a cash job + givernment benefits may not in a hurry to take a $15/hour job. The loss of regular jobs due to the pandemic forced people to accommodate, and for some, maybe those accommodations sound better now than going back to the old ways.

JMHO. But it makes sense, and nobody else has made a better suggestion.

I'd be surprised if Uber and food delivery apps allow for that sort of non-reporting. All of the payments are electronic and no cash passes between people.