Job openings fall to 3.42 million in April

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch)
The number of job openings in April fell to 3.42 million from 3.74 million in March, the Labor Department reported Tuesday, as there were fewer openings in manufacturing, professional and business services, and state and local government
The number of openings was 1.0 million higher than at the end of the recession in June 2009 The quits rate, which can serve as a measure of workers' willingness or ability to change jobs, was unchanged for total nonfarm, and essentially unchanged for total private and government
The ratio of unemployed people to available positions was 3.65 in April, down from postrecession highs but still above prerecession levels of around 2