America is in a serious jobs slump

2 speckx 2 9/3/2025, 5:30:26 PM cnn.com ↗

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SilverElfin · 5h ago
Why is this marked a dupe? I can’t find the other discussion.

I found this part insightful:

> In addition to being less dynamic, the job market has become increasingly reliant upon a select few industries — primarily health care, with leisure and hospitality to a lesser extent — to drive overall employment growth. However, even opportunities within those industries appear to be shrinking.

This part is more obvious but good to have confirmation - we need less college graduates in random low (economic) value fields and more people in trades:

> Openings picked up the most in wholesale trade, construction and the federal government (where areas such as immigration enforcement are on a hiring spree while other agencies are trying to claw back workers after the Trump administration’s deep workforce cuts).

toomuchtodo · 5h ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45116621

It doesn't show up in Algolia search as of this comment timestamp.

(mods: if marked as dupe, please include stub)