{"id":557267,"date":"2021-06-08T16:36:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T20:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=557267"},"modified":"2021-06-08T16:36:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T20:36:59","slug":"job-openings-soar-to-record-high-as-businesses-struggle-to-find-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/job-openings-soar-to-record-high-as-businesses-struggle-to-find-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Openings Soar to Record High as Businesses Struggle to Find Workers"},"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\">24<\/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-soar-to-record-high-as-businesses-struggle-to-find-workers%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=557267&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--><div readability=\"29.425287356322\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/\">Biden Administration<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Millions of April postings went unfilled amid labor shortage<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1321781708-736x491-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1321781708-736x491.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1321781708-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1321781708-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1321781708-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1321781708-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1321781708-1400x934.jpg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\"  style=\"display:none\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tPeople walk by a Help Wanted sign in the Queens borough of New York City on June 04, 2021 in New York City. The U.S. economy added 559,000 jobs in May, bringing the unemployment rate down to 5.8 percent from 6.1 percent \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/collin-anderson\/\" title=\"Posts by Collin Anderson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Collin Anderson<\/a> \u2022 June 8, 2021 4:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"82.029923170239\">\n<p><span>U.S. job openings reached a record high in April, a reflection of the ongoing labor shortage that economists blame in part on the Biden administration&#8217;s enhanced unemployment benefits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Job openings jumped to 9.3 million in April, the highest level on record since 2000, according to a Tuesday Labor Department report. U.S. businesses, however, struggled to find workers to fill them\u2014employers hired just 6.1 million people in the same month, leaving one in three openings vacant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Republican officials have long argued that increased benefits keep workers at home. They are finding support from some congressional Democrats, who are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/swing-district-dems-break-from-biden-on-increased-unemployment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>beginning to blame<\/span><\/a><span> the Biden administration for the hiring lag. Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D., Mich.) in May said business owners &#8220;want to make money, they want to be open, but they&#8217;re having a problem getting people&#8221; due to expanded unemployment benefits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Every single business owner that I know that has reached out to me has talked about this as their number one issue,&#8221; Slotkin said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The White House did not return a request for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Biden administration for months rejected claims that the enhanced payments stifled employment. On Friday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki refused to do just that, instead calling the policy&#8217;s impact &#8220;a really difficult thing to analyze.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Psaki also said states &#8220;have every right&#8221; to reject the federal payments ahead of their September expiration date, a move that White House officials criticized just weeks ago. At least 25 Republican-led states are set to end their participation in the enhanced programs in the coming weeks, with some offering a return-to-work bonus in their place. American Commitment president Phil Kerpen admonished Democratic governors for failing to &#8220;admit the obvious&#8221; and follow suit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;We have 9.3 million job openings and an acute labor shortage everywhere. We all see it every time we go to a store or restaurant\u2014they&#8217;re all understaffed and the help wanted signs are everywhere,&#8221; Kerpen told the <\/span><i><span>Washington Free Beacon<\/span><\/i><span>. &#8220;The disparity between red and blue states is going to get worse as Republican governors end bonuses this month and Democratic governors keep them going into September.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration is looking to fill at least some of the job openings with foreign workers. The Department of Homeland Security in April approved an additional 22,000 seasonal guest-worker visas.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden Administration Millions of April postings went unfilled amid labor shortage  People walk by a Help Wanted sign in the Queens borough of New York City &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2279658,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1321781708-736x491-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Job Openings Soar to Record High as Businesses Struggle to Find Workers","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1321781708-736x491-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Job Openings Soar to Record High as Businesses Struggle to Find Workers","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557267","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}