Money | unemployment Jobless Outnumber Jobs, 6-1 Ratio hits worst level since recording began in 2000 By Polly Davis Doig Posted Sep 27, 2009 10:38 AM CDT Copied In this Sept. 10, 2009 photo, Robbin Williams, second left, of Moorestown, NJ, talks with recruiter Paul Doria, second right, at a job fair in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) Even as the US pulls out of the recession, the ranks of the out-of-work have swelled to 14.5 million people, leaving six jobless people vying for every available job—the worst ratio since the Labor Department began keeping track in 2000. "There's too much uncertainty out there," says one economist who says with no surefire source of growth in sight, businesses aren't hiring. Read These Next He went to kill a Cape buffalo. Instead, it killed him. JD Vance in hot water over birthday boating trip. "Rock's forgotten genius" said no to Led Zeppelin. He shot a couple dead in early June, has yet to be caught. Report an error