If you mess up in the system good luck figuring it out for a few months. I think my state has had investigations over had bad it is. What's really stupid is unemployment fined me at some point but my unemployment insurance covered it as I had like $10k in my unemployment account the state agree I qualified for that I eventually gave up trying to use as I couldn't get these two parties within unemployment to agree. So I was qualified just unable to qualify. At least I didn't have to pay anything as unemployment covered it and I'm employed now but what a horrible system. I did attempt to go to go to court over this, major waste of time too. Especially because their own system failed with the original court date so they rescheduled for 4 months later. Huge mess. Don't ever be unemployed and you are fine though. Or move out of Texas I guess. I'm glad I had savings but I feel for those who don't. It's way too easy screw up in these systems.
Total non-sequitur. I didn't say anyone was. Not everyone is entitled to a job, but as you said in regards to policy decisions, there are jobs that are required. A lot of the mail service still needs to exist. We are nowhere near machines delivering the mail to people. And those people need to be paid and they need to live on that paycheck.
> Congress can vote on CoL adjustments for workers, both at the state and federal levels.
Yes, this is the mechanism, but that doesn't explain why or how they'd want to go with an adjustment. It's a bad look for a politician to give people a CoL adjustment - many people see it as their wage being stolen to pay another. I'm not saying that unions are the answer, but how do these workers have a voice when the public actively doesn't want them to be paid more?