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In addition to the overall jobs number everyone loves to guess, we'll also be looking at the share of new jobs that are part-time jobs, according to the BLS' household survey.
People often point this figure as a sign of how healthy job growth is. Last month, most new jobs were full-time and part-time jobs fell.
Workers are considered "part time" if they work under 35 hours per week.
Earlier this year when we were seeing a so-called "shift" from full-time job growth to
Under Obamacare, employers with over 50 employees will have to offer health insurance or face penalties (though the mandate has been delayed until 2015). But as a result, some speculated that companies would reduce their full-time staff to below the 50-person threshold or simply scale back hours.
But as we pointed out last jobs report (via the Wall Street Journal's Ben Casselman), part-time workers as a share of total workers has actually gone down.