Thanks to Trillions in Easy Money, Employers Can’t Find Enough Workers For many, benefits of "pandemic unemployment insurance" outweigh having a job. Image Credit: Email A job might help relieve the boredom. And then there are the many millions more who have recently received a piece of the third round of stimulus payments. All three bailouts combined to total around $460 billion in checks mailed out to Americans. So, it shouldn’t be an enormous shock when we find out that many employers are having trouble finding workers. One McDonalds restaurant is offering bonuses just for showing up for an interview. One eatery is offering a $400 sign-on bonus.