In 2000, more than six in ten adults (63%) knew that the number of Americans without health insurance had increased in the previous 10 years (Newshour with Jim Lehrer/Kaiser Family Foundation National Survey on the Uninsured, conducted Jan. 10 - Feb. 9, 2000). However, the public is less knowledgeable about who the uninsured are. Since 1994, around half the public has incorrectly believed that the uninsured are more likely to be unemployed or from families where no one is employed. In fact, four out of five (82%) of the uninsured are in working families: 70% live in households with a full-time worker and 12% with a part-time worker (Urban Institute/Kaiser Commission on Medicaid & the Uninsured analysis of March 2002 Current Population Survey).
