U.S. Census Bureau Household Trends and Outlook Pulse Survey (HTOPS) data highlight “hidden” workforce and workplace barriers, including cognitive impairments, caregiver constraints, and other “invisible” iceberg demographic challenges, which prevent non-working individuals from pursuing the 7.2 million unfilled jobs in the U.S. economy. In the current era of turbulence and uncertainty in business and society, HR managers should mine the monthly HTOPS data and create firm level pulse surveys to develop a data-driven talent management system that is responsive to the ever-changing and challenging lived-experiences of the U.S. population, if the nation is to solve the unfilled jobs problem.