Jobless households at new low
30 Aug 2013
The number of households where no one is in work has fallen to an alltime low. Figures released by the Office of National Statistics shows that there are 3.5 million housholds where nobody is in work. This represents 17% of all housholds and compares with a peak of 20.9% in the 1990's.. During the last year the number of households without anyone working fell by 182,000.