Courtesy of Mish.
Inquiring minds are digging into average weekly hours of workers looking for Obamacare effects on which to place blame.
Average Weekly Hours Of Production And Nonsupervisory Employees
Since this data series began in 1964, the average weekly workweek has been trending lower.
Note the tendency following each recession. 1990-1998 is the only exception to the general rule that hours never recovered to the previous pre-recession level.
Last Five Observations
- 2013-07: 33.6 Hours
- 2013-06: 33.7 Hours
- 2013-05: 33.7 Hours
- 2013-04: 33.7 Hours
- 2013-03: 33.8 Hours
Lets’ zero in to a tighter timeline for a closer look.
The second chart shows that in spite of Obamacare, average weekly hours has been bouncing between 33.6 and 33.8 for quite some time.
Several readers emailed such data is proof that Obamacare is not having the effect that I have repeated stated that it has.
They are wrong….
