The number of U.S. workers who quit their jobs rose to 4.3 million in August, which is the highest level in two decades, the Labor Department said in a report Tuesday.
According to the department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary, or JOLTS survey, U.S. workers who left their jobs voluntarily in August increased by 2.9%. In July, the figure was about 4 million.
The department said the accommodations and food service industry saw the most turnover in August (157,000). About 26,000 quit jobs in wholesale trades and 25,000 in state and local government education. About 23,000 quit in real estate.
Experts say the rising number of people leaving their jobs is an indication that it’s a worker’s market.
“This really elevated rate of people quitting their job is a sign that workers have lots of confidence and they have relatively stronger bargaining positions than they’ve had in the past,” analyst Nick Bunker told The Washington Post.
“There’s lots of demand, and people are seizing that opportunity and quitting their job.”
The report said the number and rate of hires decreased 4.3% to 6.3 million in August compared to the previous month. The JOLTS report said job openings in August declined to 10.4 million in August, coming off of a record-high number of job openings in July.
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Given that its a pain to have to get dressed, araise, have your Breakfast and then hurry off to work each day, then theres the cost of maintaining a car, the grease, oil, and gas needed to maintain a car, ALL THESE THINGS taking more of a persons wages every day it seems. Why bother with all of this when getting on welfare can pay more money than a person may earn working a 8 hour regular Job And the politicians want to act like they can’t understand why theres a shortage of workers today..
“when getting on welfare can pay more money than a person may earn working a 8 hour”
This is the traitorous, destructive, socialist Democrat Party’s plan.
Make everyone dependant on the socialist Democrat Party’s government.
Convince the Democrat Party’s “useful idiots” that the government will provide everything they want for free.
The Dishonorable, Socialist Democrat Party game plan is to lie, cheat and steal elections in order to take total control of the American people, increase Taxes on everything and bring American commerce and economy to its knees.
Then access power and retain it by any means available –
no matter the costs to the people, the government or the nation.
This traitorous, dishonorable, dishonest, immoral, socialist Democrat Party has become our country’s most destructive and deadliest ENEMY!
So who wants to get up each morning just for the privilege of fighting your way through traffic and paying twice what you used to in gas to get there, only to arrive at a job and get forced to strap on a mask that deprives you of basic oxygen needed to live, where half the people about you are foreigners who can’t even speak your language, coughing and sneezing COVID or carrying STDs acquired from their molested journey through Central America only to arrive unmolested or vetted by the Bidenites at the border. Why not stay home safe and sound and spend your daily diminishing socially dispensed free government money rather than your own hard earned, that becomes more worthless by the day, instead of sweating it out in jobs that used to build pride and sense of worth and accomplishment, but now just become human prisons of indoctrination of the minds and swamps in political promoted fear of spreading diseases. These days you are what you vote and who you voted for, only to discover that becoming an aged decrepit ball of human confusion no longer able to process human thought, but led about like a trained seal in an equity crowd of fellow stumble bums was not what they promised you would receive, nor the socialist promised Shangri La of plenty and bounty, where NOW only Mutiny on the Bounty comes to mind, and no place allowed for Mr. Christian to lead the floundering ship of state.
I wonder.. How many are quitting, CAUSE OF THE BLOODY vaccine/mask mandates. VS how many are quitting, cause they get MORE off of welfare/unemployment, than they would if they stayed working?
“There’s lots of demand, and people are seizing that opportunity and quitting their job.”
Sp, the experts and analysts coming to these conclusions—have they left their jobs in order to seize upon the massive opportunities? Or do they not quite believe what they are saying?
It’s very easy to expand the opportunities for collecting welfare. Just call the money “stimulus.” There will always be people stupid enough to believe the ruse. Where is H.L. Mencken now that we really need him?
Then you have the uneducated, immoral lazy groups who will continue to pop out babies at an alarming rate as now they not only have free housing,food,legal representation,college( which most cannot fathom), unlimited get out of jail free cards they can steal whatever from whoever because they want it and still remain free to continue with their filthy lives while American taxpayers struggle to keep food on the table by actually going to work.