{"id":1965397,"date":"2023-07-06T10:15:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T14:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/job-openings-fall-as-the-economy-reacts-to-fed-tightening\/"},"modified":"2023-07-06T10:16:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T14:16:22","slug":"job-openings-fall-as-the-economy-reacts-to-fed-tightening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/job-openings-fall-as-the-economy-reacts-to-fed-tightening\/","title":{"rendered":"Job openings decline as economy responds to Federal Reserve&#8217;s tightening measures."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjob-openings-fall-as-the-economy-reacts-to-fed-tightening%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1965397&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Labor Market Shows Signs of Contraction as Job Openings Decrease<\/h2>\n<p>The number of job openings in the United States decreased to 9.8 million in May, according to the latest update from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This decline, although still significant, raises concerns about the impact of the Federal Reserve&#8217;s interest rate hikes and the recent turmoil in the banking system.<\/p>\n<h3>Job Openings Decline Across Various Sectors<\/h3>\n<p>The decrease in job openings was particularly notable in the health care and social assistance, finance and insurance, and other services sectors. These sectors experienced the largest decreases in available positions.<\/p>\n<h3>Workers Quitting Jobs on the Rise<\/h3>\n<p>In May, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/job-openings-fall-as-the-economy-reacts-to-fed-tightening\/\" title=\"Job openings decline as economy responds to Federal Reserve's tightening measures.\">approximately 4 million workers voluntarily quit<\/a> their jobs, representing about 2.6% of the workforce. This &#8220;quits rate&#8221; includes individuals who left their previous employment for another job and those who quit but are confident in finding new employment due to the tight labor market.<\/p>\n<h3>Layoffs and Discharges Remain Steady<\/h3>\n<p>The JOLTs report also revealed that layoffs and discharges remained relatively unchanged at 1.6 million in May.<\/p>\n<h2>The Fed&#8217;s Rate Hikes and the Labor Market<\/h2>\n<p>After a series of aggressive rate hikes, the Federal Reserve decided to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysis-latin-america-after-record-tightening-could-lead-way-on-rate-cuts\/\" title=\"Latin America, having experienced significant tightening, may pave the way for rate cuts.\">hold rates steady<\/a> at 5% to 5.25% in May. However, this pause is likely temporary, as indicated by the Fed itself. The impact of these rate hikes on the labor market is becoming evident, with job openings showing signs of contraction.<\/p>\n<h2>Looking Ahead: June Jobs Data<\/h2>\n<p>Economists eagerly await the release of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stock-rally-fizzles-dollar-retreats-as-u-s-jobs-glow-fade\/\" title=\"Stock rally fizzles, dollar retreats as U.S. jobs glow fade\">latest jobs data<\/a> for June, which will provide further insights into the state of the labor market. In May, the economy exceeded expectations by adding 339,000 jobs, while the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fed-staff-predicts-recession-this-year\/\" title=\"Fed staff predicts recession this year\">unemployment rate remained low<\/a> at 3.7%.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Reserve. In May, job openings in the US fell to 9.8 million, indicating contraction due to rising interest rates. The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, covering all sectors, revealed these figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1965398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1965397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1965397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1965398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}