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Saturday, December 21, 2013

Full-Time vs. Part-Time Workers

Does anyone else find this chart shocking?
Here’s the source. I was looking up the proportion of part-time versus full-time workers to see if the passage of ObamaCare had any noticeable impact.

(Note: Be sure to look carefully at the left and right axes. It’s not that the whole composition of the workforce has flipped.)

I don’t think you can pin the blame on ObamaCare in isolation (it passed in March 2010), but the so-called Great Recession has been qualitatively worse than the dot-com bust. My short explanation is that the combination of economic turmoil and “regime uncertainty” in general (not just ObamaCare) has made employers very reluctant to commit to a full-time hire.

Source
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 21, 2013 at 5:56 PM

    This is consistent with every other problem the Democrats have caused since taking over congress in 2007.
    They have effectively begun the destruction of capitalism and America.
    Right has become wrong and wrong has become right. Everything has been turned upside down by their backward logic.
    Welcome to Socialism, the first step to totalitarian Communism.

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  2. AnonymousDecember 21, 2013 at 9:44 PM

    Obamanation (abomination).

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