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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"We don't want to be a part-time working America." ~ What the GOP is saying.
And then what they really want to say:
"That would be too much employment; we need to outsource all of our jobs to increase our profits!!"
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"We don't want to be a part-time working America." ~ What the GOP is saying. (Original Post)
Fantastic Anarchist
Oct 2013
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IllinoisBirdWatcher
(2,315 posts)1. Poor, poor Wingnuts. More facts out today making them look stoopid.
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-obamacare-20131022,0,5237220.story
Obamacare and part-time jobs: The myth exploded (again)
The report's most notable nugget is the change in part-time work. Over the last month the number of workers in part-time jobs for economic reasons--slack demand, cutbacks in hours--has remained stable. Over the last year, however, it has fallen by 681,000. Those part-timers also constitute a smaller share of all workers--5.5% in September compared to 6% a year earlier.
That puts the lie to the popular conservative meme that Obamacare has transformed America's workforce into part-timers. The idea is that employers wishing to evade the law's requirement that they offer health insurance to employees working more than 30 hours a week will cut their hours to 29 or less. The shorthand about this provided by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), that one-stop shop for Obamacare disinformation, was "single parents who have been forced into part-time work."
The report's most notable nugget is the change in part-time work. Over the last month the number of workers in part-time jobs for economic reasons--slack demand, cutbacks in hours--has remained stable. Over the last year, however, it has fallen by 681,000. Those part-timers also constitute a smaller share of all workers--5.5% in September compared to 6% a year earlier.
That puts the lie to the popular conservative meme that Obamacare has transformed America's workforce into part-timers. The idea is that employers wishing to evade the law's requirement that they offer health insurance to employees working more than 30 hours a week will cut their hours to 29 or less. The shorthand about this provided by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), that one-stop shop for Obamacare disinformation, was "single parents who have been forced into part-time work."
Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)2. Thank you for providing that.
And welcome to DU.
IllinoisBirdWatcher
(2,315 posts)3. Please feel free to repost and tweet it everywhere...
The Teabaggers have been blasting that lie. Now that the reports are published, the truth should be stuffed down their throats.