America Is in a Serious Jobs Slump
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I found this part insightful:
> In addition to being less dynamic, the job market has become increasingly reliant upon a select few industries — primarily health care, with leisure and hospitality to a lesser extent — to drive overall employment growth. However, even opportunities within those industries appear to be shrinking.
This part is more obvious but good to have confirmation - we need less college graduates in random low (economic) value fields and more people in trades:
> Openings picked up the most in wholesale trade, construction and the federal government (where areas such as immigration enforcement are on a hiring spree while other agencies are trying to claw back workers after the Trump administration’s deep workforce cuts).
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