Rex Huppke wrote about how employers are discriminating against people who are unemployed. Is it a bad idea? I think so. Here’s what I sent Rex that they haven’t considered:

I’d like to point out that by taking the unemployed out of the job pool, these companies are driving up the cost (salary) they’ll have to pay:

If there’s 100 employed art directors at ad agencies in New York, and 10 more on the street, and 101 jobs with only one open, including the 10 unemployed will allow you to hire at or below the current salary level. It will also allow employers to not offer raises, because every art director has 9 people who’d jump at his job. But if they will only hire people who are employed, then they’ll have to pay more than current salary to lure people away, and then wherever that guy left that agency will have to bid even higher until every art director has changed jobs for more money and one position is still open.