American employers posted a record number of available jobs in March, highlighting the hiring woes of businesses, with some blaming the pandemic-related federal unemployment boost for sidelining workers. Job openings rose nearly 8 percent month-over-month to 8.1 million in March, the highest number in the history of the series, which dates back to December 2000, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said in a release Tuesday (pdf). At the same time, a jobs report released last week showed that America’s private employers in April added a paltry 266,000 jobs—a proxy for new hires—despite sky-high availability of jobs and an unemployment rate of 6.1 percent, mostly because businesses seem unable to find the workers they need. Mark Fox, a New York City restaurant owner, told the Epoch Times that even though business is now finally starting to pick up, hiring troubles have slowed down the momentum. “We have difficulty hiring hourly workers, bartenders, servers, …