The Real Numbers On The Obamacare Effect Are In -- Now Let The Crow Eating Begin... :) Let’s begin with the meme threatening that healthcare reform will lead to a serious decline in full-time employment as employers reduce workforce hours to below 30 per week in the effort to avoid their responsibility to provide health benefits to their employees. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the number of part-time workers in the United States has fallen by 300,000 since March of 2010 when the Affordable Care Act was passed into law. What’s more, in the past year alone—the time period in which the nation was approaching the start date for Obamacare—full-time employment grew by over 2 million while part-time employment declined by 230,000. (Forbes) Despite the cries of anguish over the coming destruction of private sector work opportunities at the hands of Obamacare, it turns out that the only significant ‘cutter’ of work hours [is] the public sector where cops, teachers, prison guards and the like are experiencing cuts in work time as cities, states and universities [controlled by the Right Wing,] seek to avoid the obligations of the health reform law. (More Forbes) [Have you watched the statistics about government employment? The Obama administration had the biggest reduction in government number of employees, since World War II. Where are those who peddle the false narrative of bloated government payrolls? Are they living in Mars? Actually they might live in Right Wing controlled states, where there is a substantial increase in hiring, at ridiculously high salaries, of staff they need for cutting benefits to the lowest income sectors of their population and transfer education to the private sector. If you doubt this, you must be watching Fox News.] [By the way, isnt Forbes one of those media outlets that provides the real conservative talking points?]
Posted on: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 20:21:31 +0000
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