Showing posts with label Households Affected by Joblessness. Show all posts
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

More than Half of U.S. Households Affected by Joblessness

More than Half of U.S. Households Affected by Joblessness
By ANNIE LOWREY 4/20/10 4:14 PM

In a startling new Pew survey, more than half of households say that within the past year a member of the household has been out of work — up 15 percentage points since last year. The survey in general paints a bleak picture of the jobless recovery:


And 70 percent of respondents report having a major financial difficulty, including unemployment, in the past year.