White House: No Evidence Obamacare Pushing Up Part-time Numbers

Not quite a reality-based assertion

The White House said on Tuesday there was no evidence President Barack Obama's signature healthcare program is driving up the number of part-time workers, challenging the view of many business owners in the country.

Conservative Republicans have pointed to the high level of part-time employment as evidence businesses are cutting hours for their staffs in response to the new healthcare law, which will require them to offer health insurance to full-time workers.

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[triclops]

I certainly have my suspicions, but I've seen no evidence either way yet. This would be a great time to suddenly change the way part time work is calculated though, coincidentally, just to make it more "accurate" and stuff.

[Sevo]

This gets the BS meter close to red-line.
It's strange how lefties swear incentives work when taxes are manipulated to affect behavior, but then they never seem to work as a side effect to lefty disasters like O'care.