Bush...the biggest spender of all time...and he never stops

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The definition of ‘‘family’’ used throughout this article differs from that typically used in other government studies. In the SCF, a household unit is divided into a ‘‘primary economic unit’’ (PEU)—the family—and everyone else in the household. The PEU is intended to be the economically dominant single individual or couple (whether married or living together as partners) and all other persons in the household who are financially interdependent with that economically dominant person or couple.
This report also designates a head of the PEU, not to convey a judgment about how an individual family is structured but as a means of organizing the data consistently. If a couple is economically dominant in the PEU, the head is the male in a mixed-sex couple and the older person in a same-sex couple. If a single individual is economically dominant, that person is designated as the family head in this report.
Racial and Ethnic Identification
In this article, the race and ethnicity of a family in the SCF are classified according to the self-identification of that family’s original respondent to the SCF interview.

The differing data as to race, education, etc. are all broken out in the Fed article. Interesting stuff.</p>