Job Openings Still At Lowest Level Since Records Began

Last month we said that the job openings rate was the lowest ever—well guess what, this month’s Bureau of Labor Statistics report shows that the rate is even lower, at 1.9 percent.

Yet that means that 2.5 million jobs go unfilled. There’s a serious skills mismatch in this country: health care’s hiring, but it’s construction workers who are jobless. (Or on a level more close to home: the Web’s hiring, but the print veterans can’t catch a break.)

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