The author is Gary Burtless. He is an economist with a PhD from MIT.

His audience is anyone desiring to inform themselves on the effect of the Affordable Care Act on employment.

The Brookings Institution, where this article is published, is known to be politically center.

The authors purpose is to analyze the effect of the the ACA on employment in America.

The author does not take a position on the issue and does not try to sway the reader in one direction or another.

The author may have a slight left bias, but is pretty centrist overall.

The author provides graphs of employment rates over time, as well as figures for the number of people enrolled in the program.

This article has complicated my thinking because most of the information is contrary to my own argument and/or refutes some of my arguments.

My intended audience will react well to this author because he is a well qualified economist that provides non-partisan information.

I can use this piece to address counter-arguments as well as gather statistics.

I may summarize the opposing views.

It does have facts/data I might use.

It would be good to acknowledge the author’s left lean.