Part time jobs and Affordable Care Act
Take out one outlier month, and the ‘stunning growth’ in part-time employment falls from 59% to 19% of jobs added (Mark J. Perry, Carpe Diem, The American Enterprise Institute) Many are still quoting the grossly inaccurate figure of 96% of new jobs in 2013 being part-time. But even the actual 59% derives substantially from a one-month statistical outlier in the data. But even the outlier falls within the gross measurement error uncertainty for a single month (Perry refers to this obliquely as “extremely volatile”). Note: This is not from a liberally biased hack; It is from the American Enterprise Institute.
Gallup shows a 3.5% decrease in the percentage of us working full time now vs a year ago (ie, their “payroll to population employment rate” decreased to 43.5% from 45.1%); in fact, “there has been essentially no growth in full-time employment for an employer since at least 2010, the first year Gallup polled on this measure.”
the numbers from their polling are quite different than those of the BLS household survey: http://www.gallup.com/poll/165227/payroll-population-rate-september.aspx