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U.S. jobs openings surge to record high in June
Reuters ^ | August 8,2017

Posted on 08/08/2017 8:31:29 AM PDT by Hojczyk

U.S. job openings jumped to a record high in June, outpacing hiring, the latest indication that companies are having trouble finding qualified workers.

The Labor Department said on Tuesday that job openings, a measure of labor demand, increased 461,000 to a seasonally adjusted 6.2 million.

That was the highest level since the series started in December 2000 and pushed the jobs openings rate up two-tenths of a percentage point to a near one-year high of 4.0 percent. The monthly increase in job openings was the largest since July 2015.

Hiring was little changed at 5.4 million in June. That left the hiring rate steady at 3.7 percent. The gap between job openings and hiring points to a skills mismatch.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: accomplishment; economy; jobs; jobsjobsjobs; third100days; trumpeconomy; winning
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1 posted on 08/08/2017 8:31:29 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

MAGA>>>


2 posted on 08/08/2017 8:32:10 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

But Trump’s approval rating is lowest ever. Yeah, right.


3 posted on 08/08/2017 8:34:03 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (Morning in America Again, again.)
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This news turned the stock market positive this morning..look like the tenth high in a row..

Might be time to sell soon??


4 posted on 08/08/2017 8:34:14 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

All the facts about things getting better are all over the place. Now the media, including FOX, keeps reporting a bogus CNN poll about Trump tanking. I don’t believe that for one minute, but I believe the GOPe creeps like Jeb! and the Trump haters are emerging out of their stink holes because they believe these polls.


5 posted on 08/08/2017 8:35:26 AM PDT by dforest
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To: dforest

Try finding candidates who pass the drug test. Or one who can read past the 9th grade. Immigration time! Trumps.


6 posted on 08/08/2017 8:37:36 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Hojczyk

Nice to see President Obama’s policies are finally kicking in.

HA! got ya!!! :)


7 posted on 08/08/2017 8:37:57 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Hojczyk

The people that make America work, and in turn put Americans to work are showing us they have confidence in our 45th president to turn the country around.


8 posted on 08/08/2017 8:38:04 AM PDT by dowcaet
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What are these job openings? Anyone know? More part-time service sector (restaurant/hospitality) jobs or meaningful jobs like manufacturing?

All the part time jobs in the world aren't going to turn the U6 number around. Need meaningful jobs.

9 posted on 08/08/2017 8:38:55 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Hojczyk
Yet wages are only showing tiny increases.


10 posted on 08/08/2017 8:38:56 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: V_TWIN

Don’t think our MSM isn’t trying to find an Obama angle to these numbers.


11 posted on 08/08/2017 8:39:12 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: Hojczyk

With all due respect, bunk.

The American jobs situation is a result of other countries having poached American jobs steadily, for over one entire generation.

BOTH PARTIES have been completely sold out, in this process.

Trump seemed to get this. Trump seemed to be one of the only American leaders, who got this.

He has not yet acted upon that, partly because of the North Korea situation, but he’s not going to be in this situation permanently.

But until he does, I will wait for him to do so.

This is why I very early, settled on Trump for President.

He is the only person, who seeks to rebuild our own country’s hiring again.

Everyone else is completely sold out, on this.

Both parties.


12 posted on 08/08/2017 8:39:47 AM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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It’s not that they can’t find workers, it’s that they still think they can get them on the cheap... Wage offers will go up and hiring will improve. Economics works.


13 posted on 08/08/2017 8:41:29 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Hojczyk

Complete headline should be:

U.S. jobs openings surge to record high in June; Dems and GOPestablish hit hardest.

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14 posted on 08/08/2017 8:42:38 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: central_va

Tell me about it. I’m 64 YO and truly love my current job, but without a significant pay boost on the horizon am seriously considering retirement.


15 posted on 08/08/2017 8:46:04 AM PDT by tgusa (gun control: hitting your target.)
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There are way to many people in the USA. There is a wage shortage and a glut of workers which is what the corporate globalists wanted and got when they bought the GOP.


16 posted on 08/08/2017 8:47:49 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

All without Mitch passing Health Care or Tax Reform


17 posted on 08/08/2017 8:51:02 AM PDT by scooby321 (o even lower)
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To: central_va

Agreed. Our beloved VA is among the first to tank.


18 posted on 08/08/2017 8:51:35 AM PDT by tgusa (gun control: hitting your target.)
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To: Hojczyk

Finally starting to get a “real” recovery. There is a HUGE amount of slack in this economy.


19 posted on 08/08/2017 8:52:06 AM PDT by glorgau
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I don't think they'll spin it.

Like all the other positive news of late, they'll simply ignore it.

20 posted on 08/08/2017 8:59:30 AM PDT by daler
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