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Analysis: Little evidence yet that Obamacare costing full-time jobs (say WH advisers)
Reuters ^ | Tue Oct 22, 2013 5:29pm EDT | Jason Lange

Posted on 10/22/2013 8:37:31 PM PDT by Olog-hai

There is little evidence that employers are sacrificing full-time jobs by hiring more part-timers or reducing existing employee hours because of the costs of providing health coverage under Obamacare. …

“We are not seeing any effect in the data,” Jason Furman, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, told Reuters Insider.

Part of the reason may be the White House’s decision to delay the beginning of Obamacare’s so-called “employer mandate” until January 2015. Under the mandate, which was previously due to take effect in January 2014, firms with more than 50 employees must provide reasonable healthcare insurance to employees who work more than 30 hours a week. …

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: fulltimejobs; obamacare; parttimejobs; zerocare
Real reliable authority, there.
1 posted on 10/22/2013 8:37:31 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

ROTFL! Okay.


2 posted on 10/22/2013 8:38:11 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hold on to your burrito! Here comes amnesty!)
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To: Olog-hai

But, but . . . MSNBC is saying the same thing tonight. Do you think they coordinate their message with the White House? Oh, Pshaw! Surely not!


3 posted on 10/22/2013 8:40:35 PM PDT by MrChips (MrChips)
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To: Olog-hai

4 posted on 10/22/2013 8:43:18 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Olog-hai

And Herman Goering said he’s use a Jewish last name if the Allies ever bombed Berlin.


5 posted on 10/22/2013 8:43:23 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: Olog-hai
Little evidence yet that Obamacare costing full-time jobs (say WH advisers)
6 posted on 10/22/2013 8:57:21 PM PDT by Route395
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"If you think about it we're not really killing jobs
when they'd be gone sooner or later anyway!
Nothing lasts forever you know."

"At's right, I see your point, mate.
Load 'im up then will ya?"

7 posted on 10/22/2013 9:08:17 PM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: Olog-hai

Hogwash! And if I only knew how to post a picture of a pig, I would do so. It never ends—the leftists throw as much as they can hoping something will stick.


8 posted on 10/22/2013 9:38:42 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Olog-hai

Little Evidence, if they weren’t biased, they would say there is “Evidence of Job Losses of a result of Obamacare now exists”


9 posted on 10/22/2013 9:52:26 PM PDT by dila813
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To: Olog-hai
“We are not seeing any effect in the data,” Jason Furman, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, told Reuters Insider.

Ahhh yes, Jason Furman...distinguished graduate of the Stevie Wonder School of Economics.

10 posted on 10/22/2013 10:06:46 PM PDT by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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“We are not seeing any effect in the data,”

If you don't look at the data you won't see any effect in the data. You just pick up the stack of paper with the data and plop it down on the podium print side down in front of the Reuters camera and say, "Here is the data and I am just not seeing any effect"

11 posted on 10/22/2013 10:22:02 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: Olog-hai
“We are not seeing any effect in the data,” Jason Furman, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, told Reuters Insider.

The 1960's must have been very, very good to him [trails man ... trails] ...

12 posted on 10/22/2013 11:38:55 PM PDT by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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To: Olog-hai

Yeah... and Benghazi was caused by a video.


13 posted on 10/22/2013 11:54:07 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Olog-hai

My husband’s still looking for another job after BOcare cost him his in late August.

Article is pure BS


14 posted on 10/23/2013 6:47:33 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: Olog-hai
When do liberals in power, lie to Americans?


15 posted on 10/23/2013 8:16:17 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Get our troops out of the middle east and let Allah sort out the Islamofascist losers!)
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To: arthurus

Indeed. Willful ignorance does not alter reality.


16 posted on 10/23/2013 11:11:53 AM PDT by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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