Here's a graph from Derek Thompson that shows how U.S. part-time employment rises and falls, historically, in perfect sync with recessions and recoveries:
That's right. No negative Obamacare effect at all. Zilch. In fact, Thompson notes that, "in the last year, new full-time jobs outnumbered part-time jobs by 1.8 million to 8,000. For every new part-time job, we're creating 225 full-time positions."
Here's how Thompson sums how badly many journalists are skewing economic reality:
It is a free country, and journalists have every constitutional right to claim that we're moving toward a Part-Time America. They will, however, be in the uncomfortable position of making a falsifiable statement that has been relentlessly falsified by every available statistic. The entire increase in part-time employment happened before Obamacare became a law.
Wherefore the dastardly lib'rul media when we need them?
By Derek Thomson
February 7, 2014 | The Atlantic
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