Once a month the Labor Department releases the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary. The report for February will be out later this morning. As the economy has continued to recover from the Great Recession, the number of job openings has increased, now at a record high since the statistics have been gathered — and there’s a lack of workers to fill them. And one statistic, the “quits rate,” will indicate whether workers are feeling confident enough to quit their current job for new opportunities and better pay.

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