South By North Strategies, Ltd.

The newest version of the  Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics found that job openings remained scarce in November, the most recent month for which data are available. As the Economic Policy Institute noted in its analysis of the data:

This morning the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the November 2009 report from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS), showing that such openings declined by 156,000 to 2.4 million in November. At the same time, the number of unemployed workers decreased by 272,000 to 15.3 million, resulting in 12.9 million more unemployed workers than job openings in November, or 6.4 job seekers per available job, an increase from 6.1 in October.