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Joint Economic Committee Democrats Chairman - Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM)

The Ratio of Unemployed Workers to Job Openings is at the Level it Was Heading Into the Great Recession

June 8, 2016

Today's Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) shows that there were 1.4 unemployed workers per job openings in April. This brings the ratio back down to where it was shortly before the Great Recession. As recently as July of 2009 there were 6.6 unemployed workers per opening.

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