America's Unemployed Families

http://viableopposition.blogspot.ca/2015/05/americas-unemployed-families.html

As most pundits and economists have noted, the employment situation in the United States has improved substantially since just after the Great Recession when the official U-3 unemployment rate hit a peak of 10 percent.  That said, recent data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows one employment measure that has had a significant negative impact on American households and family units.

Let's open with a definition.  According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics a family is:

"...a group of two or more persons residing together who are related by birth, marriage, or adoption. The count of families is for "primary" families only, that is, the householder and all other persons related to and residing with the householder.  Families are classified either as married-couple families or as families maintained by women or men without spouses.  Families include those without children as well as those with children under 18."