the place of decent-paying jobs?

explosion in conjunction with the pay and benefits being offered is not something to applaud. All it does is cement the new upper poor group that has taken the place of the middle class. Girl next door to me got a job at a call center for a police department at eight bucks an hour. She just graduated from Santa Barbara U with a major in police science or something like that. She makes more at her side job waiting tables in a bar part-time.

There just don't seem to be any new high paying jobs for regular people. Those jobs are going to highly skilled and educated people. And highly skilled and educated in just certain fields.

You can be highly educated and find no job openings anywhere if you studied the wrong things - like the Arts.

be turned into mindless functionaries. And the arts? They are no longer needed. That this is all peaking under a Democratic administration is horrifying. Shows one how much Party really means anymore.

arm to pick up the bins and empty them into the back of the truck. There goes another few thousand jobs.

There was an article in the KC Star not very long ago about all the job openings there are in manufacturing but no one is trained to a high enough level to fill them. Manufacturing is now so computerized that it probably takes an engineer to use the machinery.

I think it's depressing.

need methods to thin the herd, which is happening right now. We have had those robotic arm trash pickups for 15 years now in California where I live. Are we really advancing or declining?

The real picture of labor according to the numbers I was reading essentially shows these jobs are unskilled, low pay, and a large segment are temp jobs with many only being present due to the government subsidizing the business to open up employment.

they are all low pay service jobs.

The other thing I have been noticing is how many gray haired people are now working all kinds of jobs that kids used to do. That is really discouraging. Someone who is 70 shouldn't have to hold down a part time job sacking at a grocery store.

Thank you for the report.

As is typical of BLS, there are many tables that break down the information.

Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary

JOB OPENINGS AND LABOR TURNOVER – JULY 2014

There were 4.7 million job openings on the last business day of July, little changed from June, the U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The hires rate (3.5 percent) and the separations rate (3.3
percent) were unchanged in July. Within separations, the quits rate (1.8 percent) and the layoffs and
discharges rate (1.2 percent) were unchanged. This release includes estimates of the number and rate of
job openings, hires, and separations for the nonfarm sector by industry and by four geographic regions.

Job Openings

There were 4.7 million job openings on the last business day of July and the rate was 3.3 percent. The
1-month change in the number of openings was not significant for total private, government, all
industries, and in all four regions. (See table 1.) Although the number of total nonfarm job openings was
little changed in July, there were 799,000 more job openings in July than in January 2014. The largest
increases since January were in retail trade, professional and business services, and health care and
social assistance.

The number of job openings (not seasonally adjusted) increased over the 12 months ending in July 2014
for total nonfarm, total private, and government. The job openings level increased in several of the
industries and in all four regions. (See table 7.)