{"id":4726,"date":"2013-10-29T14:10:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T14:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=4726"},"modified":"2013-10-29T14:10:16","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T14:10:16","slug":"heres-how-obamacare-makes-life-hell-for-college-profs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/10\/29\/heres-how-obamacare-makes-life-hell-for-college-profs\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s how Obamacare makes life hell for college profs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Universities are cutting back on adjunct professors\u2019 work hours to comply with Obamacare\u2013an unfortunate wake up call for some liberal academics who supported the law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand that colleges don\u2019t have money to throw around and there\u2019s a larger issue here, but it is frustrating to feel like, that in the face of this legislation designed to help people, that instead it\u2019s hurting people,\u201d said Amy Poff, an adjunct professor who teaches art classes at various Maryland colleges, in a statement to The Baltimore Sun.<\/p>\n<p>Under the president\u2019s health care law, employees who work 30 hours each week are eligible for health benefits. Since many adjunct professors teach enough classes to meet that bar, college administrators must choose between paying extra healthcare costs or cutting back adjunct work hours.<\/p>\n<p>For many universities\u2013both public and private\u2013the decision is an easy one: punish the adjuncts.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/politics\/?x=entry:entry131029-170931\">Here\u2019s how Obamacare makes life hell for college profs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universities are cutting back on adjunct professors\u2019 work hours to comply with Obamacare\u2013an unfortunate wake up call for some liberal academics who supported the law. \u201cI understand that colleges don\u2019t have money to throw around and there\u2019s a larger issue here, but it is frustrating to feel like, that in the face of this legislation designed to help people, that instead it\u2019s hurting people,\u201d said Amy Poff, an adjunct professor who teaches art classes at various Maryland colleges, in a statement to The Baltimore Sun. Under the president\u2019s health care law, employees who work 30 hours each week are eligible for health benefits. Since many adjunct professors teach enough classes to meet that bar, college administrators must choose between paying extra healthcare costs or cutting back adjunct work hours. For many universities\u2013both public and private\u2013the decision is an easy one: punish the adjuncts. via Here\u2019s how Obamacare makes life hell for college profs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[128,1252],"class_list":["post-4726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-aca","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}