The Hill, February 27, 2017: (Blog) Unemployment numbers don’t tell real struggles of US families
“When we look at the well-being of families through this new lens, we discover that many middle- and lower-income families have experienced high rates of parental employment insecurity and income inequality since 2000, eight years before the Great Recession. The recession brought additional large increases in employment insecurity and income inequality for such families. By March 2015, children in middle- and lower-income remained at or above the already high levels of parental employment insecurity experienced in 2000. By the end of 2014, they had family incomes 10 percent to 22 percent below their historic peak in 2000.”