Heading into Monday, the first day of July 2019 we leave an action-packed weekend behind us with a long Independence Day holiday week ahead. The activities continue, albeit at a slower place for the first day of the work week.
The number of job openings in the U.S. labor market fell to 8.8 million in July, a decrease of 338,000 from the month before, according to the latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary (JOLTS) report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. As the number of available jobs continues to decline month over month, the ratio of open jobs to job seekers has fallen to 1.5 – meaning there were about one and a half jobs available for every person looking for work in July. That’s the lowest ratio since S