Labor Market Tightness: Where Is It Easiest — and Hardest — to Find a Job Right Now?

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Indeed Hiring Lab’s new measure of labor market tightness tracks how tight or slack labor markets are in 800+ US metropolitan and micropolitan areas. California and the Southeast appear most slack for opposite reasons: too little tech demand in one, and a supply mismatch in the other. The tightest markets are in New England and the Upper

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