U.S. job openings soar to record 8.1 million, but businesses can’t find enough workers

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U.S. job openings soar to record 8.1 million, but businesses can’t find enough workers

Slowdown in hiring sparks debate over whether extra unemployment benefits are keeping people from taking jobs

Businesses have a record 8.1 million jobs to fill. The problem, they say, is getting enough people to fill them.

Job openings in the U.S. topped 8 million in March for the first time ever, the Labor Department said Tuesday. There were 7.5 million open jobs in February.

The number of job openings is now well above prepandemic levels and easily exceeds the all-time peak of 7.57 million set in November 2018. They had fallen to as low as 4.6 million last year in the early stages of the pandemic.

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