How Many Job Hunters Are Out There Now? How Many Job Openings?
It's hard to come up with a specific number of the people LOOKING for jobs in the United States in a given month. We have a good idea how many are unemployed but many people who are employed are also looking for work in any given month.
However, we can count some of the groups looking for work and see if we can come up with a decent estimate.
This article was written in October 2011. The employment picture is much improved this year. September 2012 updates and links can be found HERE.
- First, all of the "officially" unemployed must be actively looking for work to be considered "officially unemployed". That's 13,967,000 so far.
