"Refusing to get a job" folks are the same ones who kick and scream when you whisper "affirmative action" or "job security" in their ears.

These guys aren't happy unless they can buy and sell the working class at auction, then whip them into the ground to maximize ROI.

During 2020 I moved states after leaving a job. Then I was seasonally laid off in PA. I didn't qualify for unemployment because I didn't work enough in the look back period of PA, and didn't qualify for NY because I willingly switched state residencies and I didn't work there recently enough. Unemployment being left up to states is an extra layer of bull - especially for anyone considering un/employment numbers as some kind of valid metric.

a job

The people making the requires don't care how good the job is or what it pays. In some places, there simply aren't good jobs. I'd rather we as a society used our combined economic power (taxes) to take care of the basic needs of everyone, regardless of whether they have a job or not. Or if their job pays $7/hr or $500k a year.

In my state, in order to keep unemployment you have to prove that you made some sort of action towards getting a job on at least five separate days every week. Also, declining a job offer, no matter how bad it might be, ends the unemployment immediately.

Oh and also we have one of the lowest amounts of benefits and you can only be on for about 24 weeks before they cut you off entirely. Also, they don't pay the first week after you're approved.