This result implies that expanding Medicaid to childless adults under the Affordable Care Act may lead to a slight decrease in labor force participation and an increase in enrollment of other welfare programs.
In fairness, though, most viewers, not recognizing the protest, wouldn't see any anti-labor slight.
Mr. McFaul offered his own list of slights: Russia still labors to win most-favored-nation trading status under the Jackson-Vanik amendments, which were intended to punish Soviet restrictions on Jewish emigration.
Wilson's fictionalization here of Dorothy Parker shows a considerable interest... Wilson, having labored on this slight, distracted tale for some of 1941 and 1942, accumulating two hundred and seven pages of handwritten yellow legal-size lined paper, evidently decided it would be a waste of his own talent to continue.
Point estimates for higher wealth quintiles are slight larger, while those of female labor force participation and education are essentially the same.
Presumably NYU political science professors like Mead don't need to put up with the sort of slights experienced by people doing unskilled labor.
The U.S. also has the third largest military (China, again), the third freest labor force (Singapore), and, in a slight drop from last year, the third highest per capita cinema attendance (Iceland).
Four years after the end of the Great Recession, gross domestic product appears to be growing at a lackluster pace, labor productivity is lagging and, despite a slight improvement last month, the unemployment rate is still a painfully high 7.5 percent.
"Indeed, because expectations about reforms under President Hollande are so low, there is more scope for a slight rally if the government starts to get serious about labor market reform".
A close parsing of Mr. Greenspan's words shows a slight but nonetheless significant change in his discussion of the labor market, said Jan Hatzius, senior economist at Goldman Sachs.
