Another Industry Employees fall prey to Affordable Care Act.

So . . . they are being FORCED to be Cheap?

Rocket River

 

Nothing new... this is happening across the board.

 

across the board, eh

what could be countering that.

 

same unemployment rate as when he took office, but with a smaller workforce

 

In the face of the worst recession since the Great Depression, caused by AIG FP, and Goldman et. al.



looks like Obamacare is killing the recovery.

 

There's a difference between being cheap and trying to keep a college afloat. would you rather them lay people off? Is it better to under-employ a bunch of people, or close the college and not provide any jobs at all. The budget has to be cut somewhere if your costs continue to increase otherwise you can't survive.

Besides, most adjunct profs have full time jobs elsewhere with benefits - they teach in their spare time for a variety of reasons.

 

Start giving the state colleges reasonable levels of funding and they will be able to hire more full time faculty. The result of tax cutting and cutting funding to state colleges and universities is right there in your article...

"Part-time faculty already earn roughly one-fourth of what tenure-track professors bring home, according to the American Association of University Professors. In 1969, "78 percent of instructional staff comprised tenured or tenure-track professors," with the rest being adjuncts, according to Inside Higher Education. Today. Those statistics have essentially flipped, and now only a third are tenured faculty."

That isn't the Democrat's fault, nor is it the fault of the PPACA. It is the result of people being greedy.

 

Did you read the article? It is about a college limiting workers to 30 hours so they don't have to pay health insurance. This is happening everywhere, and has nothing to do with the unemployment rate.

This took 60 seconds...

http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2012/10/10/darden-restaurants-looks-to-limit.html
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20130121/EDIT05/301219969/1147/EDIT07
http://www.theglobaldispatch.com/fo...s-to-part-time-status-blames-obamacare-60307/
http://blogs.e-rockford.com/tedbion...d-to-reduce-part-time-hours-due-to-obamacare/
http://www.abqjournal.com/main/2013/01/14/biz/nm-businesses-brace-for-obamacare.html

TL,DR - Companies are just going to cut people's hours so they don't have to pay their insurance credits.

 

you want their money but they are greedy?

 

Anecdotal data points.

The overall aggregate shows a strong recovery in jobs, considering the circumstances.

For every company you can post a story about, another two are hiring thanks to Obama Administration policy.

which counters the whole mad bullrush about "Obamacare killing ALL our jobs".

excuse the president for solving asymmetric information problems, saving taxpayer dollars from the absolute stupidity of health-care by emergency and fixing up an issue that used to cost 45,000 American lives a year.

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/sto...s-annually-linked-to-lack-of-health-coverage/

All while maintaining the recovery in jobs across the board. Impressive.

 

I don't want anyone's money. I do, however, want a civilized society and taxes are the price we pay for that.

And yes, they are greedy for getting a leg up on the back of the society that the Greatest Generation sacrificed to give them and then turning around and hamstringing that society for a few bucks.

 

I don't see the issue here. We live in a free market economy. And colleges are fail of this economy. Their revenue comes mostly from the government, and are unable to get their state government to stop slashing fund left and right. Do you see Harvard or Yale caring about Obamacare? Of course not, because those are true job creators who don't need no stinking government support.

Things like this simply shows that public education isn't working and can't compete with private colleges. You can't afford to get into Ivy league school? Don't bother with higher education.

 

lol you mean the taxes you want other people to pay? If you were sincere then you'd make voluntary extra tax payments to the IRS. It's an option, you know. If you don't, you're a hypocrite.

 

You could use such a childish platitude to justify any amount of taxation for any cause (i.e. subsidies). It's absolutely meaningless unless you were arguing with someone who advocates 0 taxation (which nobody on the board does).

 

Such a stupid argument. A more fair tax system, like the one we used to have- yeah, that'd work!! Why should individuals volunteer to pay more? Everyone pays their fair share- and yes, some don't because they make next to nothing- and yes, some pay more because they make more. Geez, bunch of f**king morons advancing this volunteer-to-pay argument.

 

:grin: Uhh NO!

 

Sounds like they are lowering the unemployment rate and getting some additional people off of social services. Why is this bad?

 

Again... you're missing the point. Small and struggling businesses are going to cut back hours on staff so they do not have to pay for insurance they can't afford. What does this mean? It means that the now part-time employees have to cover their own health insurance costs of the individual mandate or face fines. You can say those are anecdotal data points but that is tens of thousands of employees just with the links I posted. That's tens of thousands of people now having to pay for their individual mandate.

This has NOTHING to do with the employment rate, I have no idea why you keep bringing it up. It has to do with the fact that many businesses can't afford Obamacare, so they are going to leave it up to their employees by cutting their hours and paying them less so they don't get fined.

 

That's better than those people simply not having health care and then forcing people with insurance to cover the cost of their ER visits with higher premiums.

Are you ok with freeloaders leeching off of our healthcare system then?