An attendee at a career fair at a community college in Bolivia, North Carolina. U.S. job openings fell in April to the lowest level in more than three years, consistent with a gradual slowdown in the labor market.
Available positions decreased to 8.06 million, from a downwardly revised 8.36 million reading in the prior month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, known as JOLTS, showed Tuesday. The figure was below all estimates in a Bloomberg survey of economists.
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