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John Fleming: “I just want to put an asterisk to your comment about employment. We met with Mort Zuckerman, economist and editor of…”

On the recordMay 7, 2013
I just want to put an asterisk to your comment about employment. We met with Mort Zuckerman, economist and editor of U.S. News & World Report. He says that much of the ``growth'' in jobs reports that you see is actually people reentering the job market, but they're actually getting part-time jobs instead of full-time jobs and, in some cases, getting a second or third part-time job so that we're actually seeing an inflation of the actual number. So ObamaCare--and I would argue Obamanomics in general--is actually taking us to not only an underemployed society but to an unemployed and underemployed society, and much of it is from ObamaCare.
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John Fleming
Republican · Louisiana
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May 7, 2013

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