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  • That time Jonathan Gruber made the case against paid leave

    01/17/2015 12:23:35 PM PST · by tje · 7 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | JANUARY 16, 2015 | 11:45 AM | ASHE SCHOW
    President Obama and Democrats are planning to make paid leave the next campaign wedge issue in order to paint Republicans as out of touch with the working class. But Jonathan Gruber may once again come to the rescue of Republicans, due to the fact that the Obamacare architect found in past research that increasing mandated benefits would result in lower wages. Gruber, you may recall, is the man who claimed that the “stupidity” of American voters aided Democrats in passing Obamacare through Congress. Heritage Foundation labor scholar James Sherk noted in a recent article for the Daily Signal that in...