In 1 in 5 Families in the U.S., No One Works

Washington Free Beacon ^ | April 22, 2016 | Ali Meyer

[Cheerio]

There were one in five families in the United States in 2015, or 19.7 percent, in which no one in the family worked, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

“Families are classified either as married-couple families or as families maintained by women or men without spouses present,” explains the bureau. “Families include those without children as well as those with children under age 18.”

There were 81,410,000 families in the United States in 2015. Of those, there were 16,060,000 families in which no member was employed, or 19.7 percent of the total.

[Cheerio]

The following quotation has been attributed to Tytler, although it has also been occasionally attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville:

A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.

[LMAO]

“From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.”

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[MichaelCorleone]

Sanders’ target group

[dragnet2]

Ship millions of American jobs and entire industries overseas and then import millions of low wage illegals into the country?

And some people are struggling to figure out what happened? They’re surprised were in decline?

Gezuz...

[Paladin2]

Why be a tax slave to the Feds?

[Blood of Tyrants]

Of those, how many are unable to work due to disability or being unable to afford child care and how many are just plain bums?

[PGR88]

its good work if you can get it.

[Scrambler Bob]

I’m retired, after over 40 years of working.

Am I ‘One of Five’???????

[sphinx]

And how many are just plain retired?

[grania]

How many of those families are retired? If they’re counted in, the percentage doesn’t seem that high.

[dfwgator]

Rolling Stones - Hang Fire

In the sweet old country where I come from
Nobody ever works
Yeah nothing gets done
We hang fire, we hang fire
You know marrying money is a full time job
I don’t need the aggravation
I’m a lazy slob
I hang fire, I hang fire
Hang fire, put it on the wire
We’ve got nothing to eat
We got nowhere to work
Nothing to drink
We just lost our shirts
I’m on the dole
We ain’t for hire
Say what the hell
Say what the hell, hang fire
Hang fire, hang fire, put it on the wire
Doo doo doo
Take a thousand dollars go have some fun
Put it all on at a hundred to one
Hang fire, hang fire, put it on the wire

[PGR88]

Also - when leftists talk about income distribution in the USA, it should be noted that the bottom 20% of income earners are there for the same reason - no one in the family is working.

By having one person working a typical, median wage job, a family immediately moves close to the 50% level of income distribution.

[Red Badger]

I assume that the numbers also include ‘elderly families’ in which both spouses are retired and living on Social Security.................

[Red Badger]

Exactly!...................

[C210N]

its good work if you can get it.

Of course it is. These workers are indeed professionals.

And they are really good at what they do as professional voters. They have gut-level knowledge of exactly how to vote, and thus are paid well, get regular "raises" and even "bonuses". They want to help the politicians and the politicians want to help them.

[The_Media_never_lie]

No work, no pay taxes. No vote.

Bring it on. Either we face this, or we collapse.

[heartwood]

Or unemployed, but actively looking for a job?

[central_va]

Ship millions of American jobs and entire industries overseas and then import millions of low wage illegals into the country? And some people are struggling to figure out what happened? They’re surprised were in decline?

It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure it out.

[dfwgator]

[Tijeras_Slim]

Am I ‘One of Five’???????

You sure ain't Seven of Nine.