San Francisco Fed: Weak demand, not Obamacare, behind rise in part-time work

By Joseph Lawler

Published August 26, 2013 4:00am ET

San Francisco Fed: Weak demand, not Obamacare, behind rise in part-time work — Matilde Hoffman seats patrons while working part time as a hostess at 'Petite Abeille' in New York City. Hoffman could not find a full-time job after graduating from University of Southern California with a bachelors degree in neuroscience. (Allison Joyce/Getty Images) | Allison Joyce

Economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco are attributing the high proportion of part-time jobs to economic slack rather than to Obamacare’s employer mandate.

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