So far this year there have been 848,000 new jobs. Of those, 813,000 are part time jobs (for both economic reasons and noneconomic reasons). To put it differently, an incredible 96% of the jobs added this year were part-time jobs. These numbers make it pretty obvious why Obama wanted to put off the employer mandate that has already been forcing some companies to move to part-time workers so as to avoid government imposed penalties. Data from the BLS.gov. H/T: Greg Mankiw & John LottLott.
