U.S. Job Openings Now More Than 4 Million: Opportunities Galore

[tonymctones]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-job-openings-now-more-163021175.html

Id love to hear from those ppl who think we need to raise the minimum wage b/c there are no jobs for those people to move into on this...


American businesses claim over and over that they cannot find people with the required skills or with the proper qualifications to fill job openings. It turns out that Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the so-called JOLTS report for the month of November. While there is a one-month lag on this versus unemployment and payrolls, the Labor Department showed that job openings in America are now at 4.001 million.

Geographic and workforce limitations are going to always be serious issues to an economy with full employment, but there exists here an opportunity now to remedy the U.S. unemployment issue once and for all. The number of counted unemployed people per job opening is also at a post-recession low.

[tonymctones]

come on now, how many people were on here talking about how we need to raise the minimum wage in part b/c there where no opportunities for people to get better jobs?

nothing to say here?

[George Whorewell]

come on now, how many people were on here talking about how we need to raise the minimum wage in part b/c there where no opportunities for people to get better jobs?

nothing to say here?

Racist post reported.

[RRKore]

Anyone know how many minimum wage workers there are in the USA currently?

[tonymctones]

Anyone know how many minimum wage workers there are in the USA currently?

not that it would matter if there were 12 million but here you go boss

Among those paid by the hour, 1.6 million earned exactly the prevailing federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. About 2.0 million had wages below the federal minimum.2 Together, these 3.6 million workers with wages at or below the federal minimum

http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2012.htm

[tonymctones]

also note that the 4 million jobs are known jobs and these types of numbers tend to be under reported.

[RRKore]

also note that the 4 million jobs are known jobs and these types of numbers tend to be under reported.

Sounds not too bad.  What about all the unemployed also, though?  (Ones who want a job, at least.)
How many of those are there? 

(Maybe I'm being too pessimistic but it sounds like no matter what, some folks are gonna be left standing either jobless or with a minimum wage job when the music stops, if ya know what I mean.)

[tonymctones]

Sounds not too bad.  What about all the unemployed also, though?  (Ones who want a job, at least.)
How many of those are there? 

(Maybe I'm being too pessimistic but it sounds like no matter what, some folks are gonna be left standing either jobless or with a minimum wage job when the music stops, if ya know what I mean.)

well seeing as the majority of ppl with minimum wage jobs are younger kids I dont really see that as an issue.

whatever the numbers the idea that we need to raise the minimum wage b/c there arent jobs for these people to move into is just plain BULLSHIT!!!

[temple_of_dis]

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