The 20 Percenters

In one in five U.S. families, no one has a job.

Not mom. Not dad. Not grandma or grandpa. No one.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 2013, there were nearly 81 million families in the United States. Of that number, about 16 million families reported that nobody in their household had a job. That number accounts for 20 percent of U.S. families.

BLS defines a family as “a group of two or more people who live together and who are related by birth, adoption or marriage.”

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