Archive for July 14th, 2014

More on “liberation from the burden of work” … say what?.

July 14, 2014

Last week, we pointed out that the 288,000 jobs gain in June wasn’t all that it was cracked up to be since full-time employment declined by over 500,000 and part-time employment increased by almost 800,000.

For details see: Last week’s employment report in 4 charts …

I thought the spike in part-time employment was a bad thing … a drift to a part-timer economy.

Silly me.

Liberal economist Dean Baker hset me straight in a HuffPost article:
“The Good News About Obamacare in the June Jobs Report”

Here’s Mr. Baker’s spin …

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