In 20% of American Families, No One Works

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/ali-meyer/bls-20-american-families-no-one-works

"(CNSNews.com) - In 20 percent of American families in 2013, according to new
data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), not one member of the
family worked.

A family, as defined by the BLS, is a group of two or more people who live
together and who are related by birth, adoption or marriage. In 2013, there
were 80,445,000 families in the United States and in 16,127,000-or 20
percent--no one had a job.

The BLS designates a person as "employed" if "during the survey reference
week" they "(a) did any work at all as paid employees; (b) worked in their
own business, profession, or on their own farm; (c) or worked 15 hours or
more as unpaid workers in an enterprise operated by a member of the family."

Members of the 16,127,000 families in which no one held jobs could have been
either unemployed or not in the labor force. BLS designates a person as
unemployed if they did not have a job but were actively seeking one. BLS
designates someone as not in the labor force if they did not have a job and
were not actively seeking one. (An elderly couple, in which both the husband
and wife are retired, would count as a family in which no one held a job.)

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Of the 80,445,000 families in the United States in 2013, there were
7,685,000-or about 9.6 percent-in which at least one family member
unemployed.

"The BLS has been tracking data on employment in families since 1995. That
year, the percent of families in which no one had a job was 18.8 percent.
The percentage hit an all-time high of 20.2 percent in 2011. It held steady
at 20 percent in in 2012 and 2013."

It must be good news that so many people no longer have to work for a
living...right?

By Epictetus