>> First of all i didn't intentionally leave anything out unlike you it seems...it must have taken some work to chop off the rest of that graph and leave out the article from the Atlantic.
OKAY, you personally may not have intentionally left anything out.
But when the relevant period of time is Jan 1 '13 through Jun 30 '13, and you post a graph that cuts off at 12 31 '12, that's leaving out the ONLY THING THAT MATTERS.
It didn't take any "work", but I chopped off the irrelevant portion -- that is, prior to Jan 1 '13. Either you have been sucked in by Obama's nonsense or you're just trying like he is to misrepresent the facts. Employers had no idea prior to the end of last year while the regulations were going to look like, and they certainly weren't making plans based on speculation. What you posted conveniently ignored the relevant period while trying to mislead people into looking at the irrelevant portion.
I really can't just keep explaining this repeatedly. If you're going to get it, you should have been able to see the rather obvious distinction by now.
>> .there are spikes and valleys all over it from 2007 onward..
From the article I linked, which you apparently never bothered to read:
"The health-care law's actual consequences unequivocally appear in the jobs data for this period. Between Jan. 1 and June 30, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the economy added 833,000 part-time jobs and lost 97,000 full-time jobs, for net creation of 736,000 jobs. In reality, the economy overall added no full-time jobs. Rather, it lost them."
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In August, Keith Hall, who ran the Bureau of Labor Statistics from 2008-12, looked at part-time hiring from the end of January through July and told a McClatchy reporter that the results were "really remarkable" and "a really high number for a six-month period. I'm not sure that has ever happened over six months before."
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In any event, ObamaCare's mandate that employers provide health insurance coverage to employees who work 30 or more hours per week wasn't set to take effect until Jan. 1, 2014. To determine whether an employee was working 30 or more hours per week, ObamaCare provides a "look back period" of three to 12 months. With a maximum one-year "look back," employers had little incentive to significantly increase part-time employment until Jan. 1, 2013.
This really isn't a complicated subject, it is both intuitively and statistically significant. Some of us told you up front what would happen and, lo and behold, it is precisely what happened. And I will tell you now that when businesses believe Obamacare is going to cost them more money in 2015 they're going to pick right up doing it again.
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