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A Record Share of Young American Women Are Living With Family
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A record share of young women in the U.S. lived at home last year and the economy had little do with it.
Some 36.4 percent of women age 18 to 34 lived with their parents or relatives in 2014, the highest since records began in 1940, according to a report released Wednesday by Pew Research Center in Washington. While the share of young men was even greater at 42.8 percent, it wasn't quite as high as it was some 75 years ago.