Ellison: Americans Work Too Much, and the CBO Says They Can Now Cook Dinner

‘We might to want look at our work-life balance, and this is something that gives us a great opportunity’

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On This Week With George StephanopoulosSunday morning, Representative Keith Ellison(D-MN) and Representative Tom Cole (R-OK) battled over last week’s Congressional Budget Office report that projected new incentives from Obamacare would cause a reduction in hours worked roughly equivalent to 2 million jobs, with each lawmaker arguing that the report bolstered their party’s side on Obamacare.

“What the Congressional Budget Office is saying is that we’re going to discourage kids from having to be latch key,” Ellison said. “We’re going to have parents being able to come home, working reasonable hours. People are going to be able to retire. People may be able to actually cook dinner rather than have to get takeout. The fact is is that if Americans can have more choices to open up a new business they’ve been wanting to start—this is a good thing.”

“If you look at international comparisons country by country, Americans work way more than the average of industrialized countries around the world,” Ellison continued. “We might to want look at our work-life balance, and this is something that gives us a great opportunity.”

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