UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES – AT 8:38 A.M. ET:  Sometimes things just don't work out the way they're supposed to.  Or is it that some people just don't care.  From William Jacobson's great College Insurrection website: 

Isn’t it strange how the “Affordable” Care Act is making college less affordable?

Valerie Richardson of the Washington Times reported.

College students overwhelmingly swung for President Obama in 2008 and 2012, but they’re now finding their on-campus work hours cut back, thanks to Obamacare.

The latest example comes from the University of Colorado Boulder, where administrators posted an online notice last week informing students that their university-provided employment would be capped at 25 hours per week as a result of the Affordable Care Act.

Under Obamacare, employers must provide health insurance coverage to employees working 30 hours or more per week or face fines.

“After the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), the campus took the opportunity to examine the number of hours student employees were working per week and has established a policy which sets the maximum number of hours a student employee can work during a bi-weekly pay period,” said the Sept. 30 notice on the university website.

Cutting student work hours is increasingly becoming the standard at universities as they move to comply with the ACA’s rules on insurance coverage, but students aren’t the only ones affected. Adjunct faculty and graduate assistants are also seeing their hours reduced in response, according to Campus Reform.

COMMENT:  This problem has been known for some time, but goes unaddressed by an administation claiming to be "sensitive" to education and the economic plight of students.  Yeah, right.  They've got the backs of students who have to work their way through college – and they're regularly plunging knives right into those backs.

But Barack understands.  And he'll take care of this right after he defeats ISIS and returns from Martha's Vineyard.

October 12, 2014