Financial Issues Top the List of Reasons U.S. Adults Live in Multigenerational Homes
Nearly four-in-ten men ages 25 to 29 now live with older relatives.
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Nearly four-in-ten men ages 25 to 29 now live with older relatives.
Household incomes in the United States have rebounded from their 2012 bottom in the wake of the Great Recession. And for the most part, the typical incomes of households headed by less-educated adults as well as more-educated adults have increased.
Compared with 2000, suburban populations are less engaged in the labor market, experiencing declining incomes and seeing home values that have not kept pace with those of the central cities.
This year will likely be the first year in which women are a majority of the U.S. college-educated labor force.
Between February and June 2020, the share of young adults who are neither enrolled in school nor employed has more than doubled.
About half of U.S. adults lived in middle-income households in 2018, according to our new analysis of government data.
The 30-year low reflects in part tight labor markets and falling unemployment, but also higher shares of young women at work or in school.
Financial independence is one of the many markers used to designate the crossover from childhood into young adulthood, and it’s a milestone most Americans (64%) think young adults should reach by the time they are 22 years old, according to a new Pew Research Center study. But that’s not the reality for most young adults who’ve reached this age.
Around a quarter of college faculty in the U.S. were nonwhite in fall 2017, compared with 45% of students.
An influx of students from low-income families and students of color at U.S. colleges and universities has almost exclusively fueled the growth in the overall number of undergraduates.
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