National job gap at 12.3 million

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The Birmingham News cites The Hamilton Project’s most recent piece on the “job gap”, which is currently 12.3 million jobs nationwide. The job gap is the number of jobs that the U.S. economy needs to create in order to return to pre-recession employment levels while also absorbing the 125,000 people who enter the labor force each month. Read the full article here.

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