“Anyone who insists ObamaCare employer penalties aren’t having a meaningful impact on work hours simply hasn’t looked closely at the evidence.”
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“…it’s not hard to find industry groups with an unprecedented drop in work hours since ObamaCare became law.”
“Among retail bakeries, home-improvement stores and providers of social assistance to the elderly and disabled, the workweek for nonmanagers has fallen to record-low levels — by far.”
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“The industries listed above are among the most logical to test for an ObamaCare effect because the average workweek has been above, or at least close to, 30 hours — the point at which ObamaCare makes employers liable for health coverage.”
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“Since the end of 2011, the workweek for those assisting the elderly and disabled has shrunk by 4.8%, from 29 hours to 27.6 in June, the lowest back to 1990.”
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“The average workweek at retail bakeries has plunged 7.7% since the start of last year, from 29.8 hours to 27.5 hours.”
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“At general merchandise stores, nonsupervisors’ workweek has shrunk 7.5% since the start of 2012, from 32.2 hours to 29.8.”
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“[at retail home centers], average weekly hours for non-managers have fallen another 4.7% since the start of 2012, from 32 hours to 30.5.”
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“But the sharp fall in the workweek across multiple industries as employer penalties loomed provides powerful evidence of ObamaCare’s impact on hours. And it’s likely happening in a variety of other low-wage industries — as restaurant, movie theater and parking garage operators, among others, have acknowledged.”
ObamaCare Toll Told In 4 Industries’ Data
Aug 14, 2013
Investor’s Business Daily
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/obamacare-toll-told-4-industries-225500350.html