Breitbart Business Digest: JOLTS Says the Labor Market Is Healthy

The JOLTS Report Shows a Healthy Labor Market, Not a ‘Sluggish’ One

The March JOLTS report dropped Tuesday morning and the Associated Press immediately informed the nation that the labor market “remained sluggish.” That’s a strange way to describe a report showing hiring surged by 655,000 to 5.6 million, job openings held steady at 6.9 million, and the quits rate ticked up — all consistent with the March payrolls report that showed 178,000 new jobs and unemployment falling to 4.3 percent.

So, why does it look “sluggish” to the Associated Press? It’s tempting to write this off as pure Trump Derangement Syndrome. There’s an overwhelming urge in the legacy media to describe anything happening in America as “troubled” or unhealthy so long as President Donald Trump is in the White House. The same outfits that downplayed the surge in inflation under Biden cannot stop talking about an “affordability crisis” now that