
The US job market, too few workers or not enough pay?
The Bridge to China
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The Importance of Staying Informed
The latest data shows that we have 9.9 million job openings in the US, but only 5.8 million unemployed workers. According to this too, there's 1.8 million missing workers, labor force participation. If you just subtracted out, if you could just give all those jobs to those people, you'd have 4.2 million jobs left over. So you have tons of openings and you havetons of unemployed people and they're not getting together.
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