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What has PPACA really done to jobs?

Two analysts give conflicting accounts of how the U.S. job market is really doing now that major PPACA insurance programs and insurance rules have come to life.

By Allison Bell | Updated on June 08, 2015
(AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Two analysts last week gave the Joint Economic Committee conflicting accounts of how the U.S. job market is really doing now that major Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act insurance programs and insurance rules have come to life.

One witness, Paul Van de Water, a witness from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a research center popular with Democrats, testified at a committee hearing on PPACA’s effects on employment that the job market looks good because it is good.

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