Economists thought Obamacare would kill full-time jobs. That's not happening.

[applegrove]

Economists thought Obamacare would kill full-time jobs. That's not happening.

by Sarah Kliff at Vox

http://www.vox.com/2016/1/11/10745712/obamacare-parttime-work

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In mid-2014, it was not hard to find a story about a company cutting workers' hours in order to dodge Obamacare's insurance mandate. Target, Home Depot, and Walmart all ended up in the headlines for trying to dodge the employer mandate by having employees work fewer than 30 hours a week.

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Those were real stories, and they affected real people with real jobs. But new research in the journal Health Affairs suggests they weren't the norm: The data shows no national trend toward more part-time employment under the Affordable Care Act — even if you drill into the type of people you'd expect to get hit hardest.


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[Gothmog]

1. Thanks for posting this

[LakeVermilion]

2. Work needs to get done...

Do these theorists think that workers are hired because employers are benevolent? Companies are run on such thin margins now, there is no place to cut employees without affecting the product.