“The increase in job openings is encouraging, but we’ve got to string together a few months of improving job openings.”

Ryan Sweet, chief U.S. economist at Oxford Economics, commented on new data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics that showed there were an estimated 8.04 million job openings in August, an increase from an upwardly revised 7.71 million in July. Read the CNN article, “A Sign of Strength in the Labor Market: Job Openings Increased in August.”