Healthcare has been a key driver of post-pandemic employment growth in the US, accounting for about one in five new jobs across the country since 2021. Now a hiring slowdown in that sector is making the broader labor market look increasingly shaky. Companies added just 30,900 healthcare workers to payrolls in August, the least in more than two years. The pullback was especially pronounced in hospitals and nursing care facilities, which together employ half of the sector’s 17.7 million-strong workforce.
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Source: https://www.modernhealthcare.com/labor/us-job-market-healthcare-jobs-hiring-staffing-covid-19-pandemic