Jobs: 6.5 million openings Feng Yu // Shutterstock Jobs: 6.5 million openings The number of American job openings was at6.5 million in November 2020. The unemployment rate was at6.7% in December 2020, or 10.7 million. The so-called "skills gap" helps explain how so many jobs go unfilled ...
As we have indicated before, this is a story of increasing labor shortage caused by age demography, technological change, and a slowdown of new immigrant workers. The BLS “JOLTS” report (Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey) showed healthcare and social services openings up...