A hiring sign at the Fashion Centre at Pentagon City shopping mall in Arlington, Va. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times
The number of job vacancies declined to below 7.2 million for the first time since last September, new Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data show.
According to the July Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary (JOLTS), released on Sept. 3, job openings fell by 176,000, to 7.18 million from the downwardly revised 7.35 million in the previous month.
