America’s Job Fields Start Acting Like It’s 2020 All Over Again-And Nobody’s Laughing
That number now sits like a tired man on a porch step, marking the second-lowest reading since December 2020. Since the hopeful peaks of 2022, there have been 524,000 fewer openings-vanished like smoke over a field after harvest. We are back to the levels folks once called “normal” in 2017 and 2018, though nobody then thought normal would feel so uneasy later.


