# Prof. Lawrence White discusses the Labor Department’s recent JOLT survey

1 Faculty News October 24, 2013 ![Investor's Business Daily logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031423.jpg?itok=qKFHHK6U)>

Excerpt from [Investor's Business Daily](http://news.investors.com/economy/102413-676479-americans-quitting-jobs-but-employment-still-weak.htm) -- "'As more people leave voluntarily, presumably many of them are doing so for something better, and that's all to the good,' said [Lawrence White](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/lawrence-white), an economics professor at New York University's Stern School of Business. 'It suggests they not only see opportunity but are feeling optimistic enough about their opportunities to leave the security of their current job.'"

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