Falling, rising or staying the same….interpretation of the latest workless households figures seems to offer all possibilities.
One thing is clear. There has been a tiny rise in the percentage of children in workless households. For the three months to June 2011, the percentage of children living in households where none of the adults has ever worked was 2.6 per cent (307,000 children), up 0.3 percentage points from a year earlier.
Just over 300,000 children live in households where none of the adults has ever worked. It’s a lot. But it’s 2.6 per cent of children. Which perhaps doesn’t fit the scaremongering that some give out of large swathes of the country being filled with generation upon generation who have never worked. Most will be in single parent households.
More details on the figures from the Office for National Statistics.
