Fact: 4 job seekers per opening in U.S. September 12th, 2011
12:00 PM ET  Fact: 4 job seekers per opening in U.S.  According
to the most recent data from the Labor department, there are 14
million unemployed people and 3.2 million job openings in the
U.S.  As Scott Winship at Brookings writes,  “From 1951 through
2007, there were never more than three unemployed workers for
each job opening, and it was rare for that figure even to hit
two-to-one.  In contrast, there have been more than three
jobseekers per opening in every single month since September
2008.  The ratio peaked somewhere between five-to-one and seven-
to-one in mid-2009.”  This Sunday at 8pm ET, Fareed Zakaria will
explore this issue in a special edition of CNN GPS called
"Restoring the American Dream: Getting Back to Work."  Post by:
Topics: Daily Fact • Economy • Jobs  soundoff (9 Responses)
14 M? Unbelievable.      September 12, 2011 at 12:39 pm | Reply
2. j. von hettlingen      To create jobs is Obama's vocation, if
he aims at a secon