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Todd Young: Reclaiming my time, I sometimes like to distill the narrative down to some numbers. You just mentioned the movement down…

On the recordApril 1, 2014
Reclaiming my time, I sometimes like to distill the narrative down to some numbers. You just mentioned the movement down to 29 hours a week. Let's consider the Kentuckian or the Hoosier who is currently working 39 hours a week, and because of this provision, their employer is unable, under the current economic conditions, to offer them ObamaCare- sanctioned health insurance. They are incentivized to move that hardworking hourly work down to 29 hours. That is a loss of 10 hours per week. Over the course of a month, that worker is losing an entire work week. How is an hourly worker that has to pay for food and shelter and clothing and other basic expenditures supposed to take care of their family? It is imminently unfair, and someone needs to stand up for our low- and middle-income workers. I think that is the essence of what this is all about.
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Todd Young
Republican · Indiana
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Apr 1, 2014

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