It's progress, but it's only 114 job titles being struck and another 13 subject to extra justification. There are 3,127 on the "unskilled labor" list (all labor is skilled labor) and I've seen analysis that over 3/4ths of them are obsolete.
The Social Security Administration will eliminate all but a handful of those unskilled jobs from a long-outdated database used to decide who gets benefits and who is denied, ending a practice that advocates have long decried as unfair and inaccurate.
If the SSA wants to deny your benefits because they think you can work, they should be forced to find you an actual, literal, you-can-start-tomorrow-with-a-pay-advance fucking job placement.
I’m just back to state and federal governments need to be employers of last resort — there are a million jobs that are totally unprofitable but need to be done, at every level of skill, from digitization to babysitting tree seedlings.
"jobs that are totally unprofitable but need to be done" is absolutely one of the things government is for... my gosh, *digitization*. so much digitization, and then every digitized document needs someone to index it for searchability...
thinking of 'weird things the WPA paid for' - collection of oral histories, transcription of cemeteries, sketches and floorplans of historic buildings... or just 'here hold this flashlight for the electrician'.
