Government Job Openings Surge Amid Decline in Private Sector Jobs  Going into today's JOLTS report, we anticipated that much of the previous month's unexpected surge in job openings—primarily due to a strange spike in government openings—would be revised downward, and that the June numbers would reflect a decrease from the revised May figures....

April Job Openings Plunge to New Lows, Raising Economic Concerns  After several months of uneventful JOLTS reports, Janet Yellen's preferred labor market indicator took a sharp turn for the worse. In March, job openings unexpectedly dropped by 325,000, bringing the total down to 8.5 million, the lowest in three years. The latest April update f...