Episode #7
Growing Up American: Family, Work, and the Changing American Dream!
<p>RESEARCH NOTES / FACT CHECKINGU.S. unemployment</p><p>Historical BLS data show approximately:</p>1950: 5.3%1960: 5.5%1970: 4.9%1975: 8.5%1980: 7.1%<p>This is why the episode avoids claiming that finding work was universally easy in the 1950s–80s.</p><p>Historical BLS data show:</p>1950: ~14.0 million1960: ~15.4 million1970: ~17.9 million1979: ~19.4 million1980: ~18.7 million2019: ~12.8 million<p>This illustrates the enormous structural change in the American labor market.</p><p>The Census Bureau reports:</p>About 85% of children under 18 lived with two parents in 1968About 70% did in 2020Children living with their mother only increased from about 11% to 21% over that period.<p>The Census Bureau also reports that married-couple households represented ap...
