That issue is no longer relegated to just Florida, California, and Texas. It is all over the country.
Absolutely.
In NM hubs was a General Contractor building custom homes for many years.
At times he had 3 crews working.
Welfare pays well there. And the attitudes of the people where we were at
(small town of about 7,000) stunk. Trying to find workers who weren't
on drugs was a challenge. Starting pay for unskilled was $9/hr or more.
Skilled 12+.
Then they'd show up when they wanted, leave when they wanted, and take
as long of a lunch hour as they wanted.
Asked a foreman once, on our dime, to get a car seat out of the shed.
He acted like I'd asked him to get a sex change.
Not worth it all on the employer's perspective. If people didn't get all these
handouts sitting at home doing nothing perhaps attitudes would change, and
quickly?