4.4 Million Americans Quit Their Job Last Month

“A record 4.4 million Americans quit their jobs in September, as job openings remained near record levels according to federal data, a sign of how imbalances in the labor market continue to complicate the economic recovery 20 months into the pandemic,” the Washington Post reports.

“Those numbers are up from August, when 4.3 million people who quit their jobs in August — about 2.9 percent of the workforce.”