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<p class="text">A recent jobs report revealed an interesting discrepancy in the labor market of the United States. According to the report, there are 10 million job openings and 8.4 million people without a job. Did we read that right? We have 1.6 million more jobs than we have people who are looking for jobs</p>
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<p class="text">Yes, we read that right. We have a surplus of jobs in the United States but we still have a lot of unemployed friends. How can that be?</p>
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<p class="text">Actually, there are some very logical reasons for this. For one thing, some people aren't looking for a job. They haven't looked for a job in a long time and they aren't going to look for a job now. Frankly speaking, not everyone wants a job. We are always going to have some level of unemployment.</p>
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<p class="text">The second reason is a matter of location. The jobs are in one place and the people are in another place. Even with the internet, it's hard to find people who can do the job that's being offered in the places where the jobs are. Yes, we are a mobile society, but even with that, some people aren't going to move to another place in the country just to find a job.</p>
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<p class="text">The last reason is the one I find most interesting: we don't have enough people trained in the skills required by the new jobs. We have a shortage of truck drivers because, for one thing, we have a shortage of people with the required training and licenses. We need computer programmers and computer engineers, but we don't have enough of them who are trained and available.</p>
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<p class="text">We have the jobs. What we don't have is people ready and capable to do the jobs.</p>
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<p class="text">While I was reading this article, I thought about the local church. It's a professional hazard with me. Everything I read is filtered through the lens of the local church. ...</p><p class="more"><a href="https://www.christianitytoday.com/scot-mcknight/2021/september/asking-wrong-questions.html">Continue reading</a>...</p>
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