US unemployment comes in under expectations.
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Most people in "non-career" type jobs are underemployed, thanks to the ACA, which requires healthcare to be employer-provided for everyone working 40 or more hours/week. "Yeah, we're gonna make those mean ol' employers PAY!" That's not what happens in the real world. You just can't get 40 hours anymore.
30 or more hours per week. A few states are 20 or more
I mean I was more so looking at it from the perspective of someone having the qualifications to do career work. Like Engineering or something similar.
But they’re employed stocking shelves at Walmart. Because that’s the only job that was actually hiring.
I wasn’t really looking at it from the perspective of hours worked. Or career/non-career. Even still. A lot of places were screwing their hourly non-career employees on hours even without the ACA.
That’s just something that comes with the territory of hourly work in most non-career jobs. Barring some exceptions for certain jobs such as Hospital orderlies or something similar. Margins are generally smaller and narrower. So every cent they save on hours benefits their bottom line.
The difference is that you used to be able to get 40 hours/week, or even a salary, even if it wasn't a career position and you didn't qualify for benefits. Now you still don't qualify for benefits PLUS you can't get 40 hours.