US job openings decline to the lowest level since early 2021

By Jarrell Dillard
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U.S. job openings fell in September to the lowest since early 2021, and layoffs picked up, consistent with a slowdown in the labor market.

Available positions decreased to 7.44 million from a downwardly revised 7.86 million reading in August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, known as JOLTS, showed Tuesday. The median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of economists called for 8 million openings.

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