Hours Cut As Obamacare Rolls On Obamacare defenders insist that the claim that it’s depressing job growth is overblown. Well, the cost of health insurance might not be something that employers worry about when they’re hiring executives. But for people on the lower rungs of employment, the ones the government claims it’s trying to help, the new health care law is giving them a double whammy: it’s costing them their existing health coverage while cutting their work hours, making it harder to afford replacement coverage. And now, that claim has been verified in the President’ own home state of Illinois. The Illinois Policy Institute studied the three employment sectors whose average worker hours were closest to 30 hours a week before Obamacare. They are retail, food and merchandise. That’s where low-paid hourly workers are most heavily concentrated. Since Obamacare passed, the average hours worked in all three industries have dropped below 30 hours a week, the threshold for having to provide health care. To put it another way, so many work hours have been cut due to Obamacare that it’s the equivalent of losing 66,000 jobs in Illinois alone. I know, the politicians will say those are just low-paying hourly jobs, so what does it really matter? Well, it matters a great deal to the people who have to feed their families by working at them. Mike Huckabee.
Posted on: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 16:09:37 +0000