Wednesday, October 23, 2013

THIS NEEDS TO BE SPREAD AROUND

The wingnuts are attacking Obamacare by falsely claiming it has reduced the number of full-time jobs and increased the number of part-time jobs. I've noted before that this is a typical conservative lie and here's a little more reality-based evidence:
Obamacare Isn't Ruining the Economy the Way Republicans Had Claimed
Connor Simpson 3,036 Views Oct 22, 2013
The Atlantic Wire

A common Republican criticism of the Obamacare is it's encouraging employers to keep work at part time to avoid health care costs, ruining the economy in the process. But the last jobs report before the health care law's insurance exchanges went online effectively debunks that charge entirely.

See, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the September jobs report on Tuesday, and the economy isn't falling apart. Some new jobs were added but not many. One interesting data point, as Business Insider's Steven Perlberg notes, is part of the survey shows full-time jobs rose and part-time jobs actually fell ahead of Obamacare's debut: 691,000 full-time jobs were added while 594,000 part-time jobs disappeared. "This was the second straight month of part-time jobs falling," Perlberg says.

2 comments:

Ken Hoop said...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/24/why-obamacare-will-fail-to-solve-our-health-care-crisis/

But otoh.....

Steve J. said...

WOW! That's a really good critique