Obozo caught in yet another lie. But the media won't challenge him and so he'll keep on lying.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/famee.pdf
In 2015, 6.9 percent of families included an unemployed person, down from 8.0 percent in 2014, the
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Of the nation’s 81.4 million families, 80.3 percent had at
least one employed member in 2015.
What's the lie? You're claiming that the BLS is telling the truth about the percent of families with no one working but lying about the unemployment rate, when both sets of data come from the very same survey? How does that make sense?
A family is 2 or more people living together related by birth, adoption, or marriage. Among those 1 in 5 families are my parents...a 2 person household where both are retired. Their neighbors are also a retired couple.
The unemployment rate is the percent of the Labor Force (people working or trying to work) who are not working.
And looking through
Table 1. Employment and unemployment in families by race and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, 2014-2015 annual averages we see that there are16,050,000 families where no one is employed, 5,615,000 families where at least one person is unemployed...of which 3,861,000 have at least one person who is employed. So that means there are 16,050,000 families where no one is working, but only 1,784,000 where anyone is trying work. Since we know there are 51 million people age 55 and older who do not want a job (presumably retired), we can assume that a large percent of those 14 million families where no one is working or trying to work are retired couples.