South Carolina Workforce Woes: Excuses, Not Improvements

Glad to finally see FITS make a meaningful recognition of the retiree impact on this metric…However, SC also has the third highest rate of married citizens in the nations (although sadly those stats are still generationally low)…and it’s a statistical and financial fact that in that scenario, there are more households in which can make it on one income. Would it account for 7 or 8 percentage points? No, but it could account for 1-3 percent of it. But so long as we have a culture that for the most part no longer feels any sense of shame for being on the dole, and the welfare basket of benefits is somewhat competitive to the basket of benefits from a decent honest job, this will be a nagging problem.