In Texas, College Officials Claim PTer Health Care Too Costly—Cut Course Loads Instead

By David Crowder The figures aren’t in yet and it’s a story that is just starting to be told: full-time workers forced into part-time work and part- timers’ hours cut sharply because of the Affordable Care Act. Standing behind the cash register, the manager of an El Paso Taco Cabana talked freely about how all his full-time workers had their hours cut to less than 30 a week last summer so the company wouldn’t have to provide them with health insurance this year. “They’ve had to look for second jobs,” he said. A Dillard’s sales clerk said he was working […]