Employment Characteristics of Families 2007
"In 2007, the share of families with an unemployed member was 6.3 per-
cent, little changed from the prior year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics
of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. The proportion of fam-
ilies with an unemployed member remained lower than the recent peak of
8.1 percent in 2003. Of the nation’s 77.9 million families, the propor-
tion that had at least one employed member was little changed in 2007 at
82.6 percent."