Newsweek - America's labor shortage continues, with the available workforce across the country remaining below levels recorded before the COVID-19 pandemic, and some states, most notably Oklahoma and Maine, hit especially hard.
"While economists talk about the labor market cooling, there were 9.6 million job openings in June, down only 34,000 from May," said the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Chief Economist Curtis Dubay in his latest analysis of the market, shared with Newsweek.
"There are now 3.6 million more job openings than unemployed workers. The worker shortage continues to be a major challenge for employers," he added.
An estimated 50.5 million people quit their job in 2022 in a phenomenon that was dubbed the "Great Resignation."....
The 13 states most affected by labor shortages, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, are Alabama, Arkansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah and Vermont.
These states are all included in the "Most Severe" category in the Chamber's Worker Shortage index. The other categories are "More Severe," "Severe," "Less Severe" and "Least Severe."
Oklahoma and Maine have 50 available workers for every 100 job openings, with respectively 128,000 job opportunities and 52,060 unemployed workers and 40,000 job openings for 16,014 unemployed workers.
In contrast, Oregon, Illinois, Alaska, Oklahoma, Utah, Texas, North Dakota, New York, Virginia and New Jersey are the only states that have a higher percentage of their labor force working than before the pandemic.
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