Must-read: Max Ehrenfreund and Carolyn Y. Johnson: “One of the Biggest Fears about Obamacare Never Happened”

Must-Read: Max Ehrenfreund and Carolyn Y. Johnson: One of the Biggest Fears about Obamacare Never Happened: “Opponents warned that the law would discourage large numbers… from working…

…force millions into part-time jobs and make it more difficult to find work. Three new studies released this week suggest that, so far, it hasn’t happened…. If the law has had any effect on the labor market, it’s been a small one. ‘There were a lot of stories about employers, with anecdotes about employers shifting jobs to part-time,’ said Larry Levitt, an economist at the Kaiser Family Foundation not involved in the new research. ‘You can’t deny those stories–they’re real. They’re just not generalizable. It’s not what is mostly happening’…

January 7, 2016

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