"Never worked" households at record high

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A total of 370,000 households are without any member who has ever had a paid job, the most on record, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported.The statistics agency has tracked the number of households which have never worked over every April to June period for the past 16 years.The number has been rising steadily since records began in 1996, more than doubling from 178,000 that year to the current 370,000 level.The latest yearly increase of 18,000 households took the proportion of households which have never worked to 1.8pc of the total, or around one in every 55. That meant that 2.6pc of all British children living in households where none of the adults has ever worked, representing some 307,000 children.