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In fact, the building talent bottleneck isn’t availability of curriculum, training programs, or interest in the trades; with growing awareness of high wages and unfilled jobs, interest among young adults has doubled in the past decade.—
Ryan Craig,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2026 Maddock said the state should see a $2 million increase to the school aid budget and cuts to what Republicans call phantom jobs or phantom employees, positions that are budgeted for but have remained unfilled.—
Elle Meyers,
CBS News,
29 June 2026 There are currently about 500,000 unfilled manufacturing jobs, many of them in rural states like Maine.—
Timothy Templet,
Fortune,
27 June 2026 But this year, 133,000 of those seats — nearly 1 in 3 — went unfilled.—
Joe Ferguson,
Chicago Tribune,
15 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for unfilled