Number of Twenty-Somethings Living With Their Parents Up Fifty Percent From Before Crisis
Almost a quarter of adults aged between eighteen and thirty live with their parents
The number of 26-year-olds living with parents has jumped almost 46 percent since 2007, Bloomberg's Kathy Warbelow and Frank Bass report, as post-college-aged students struggle to find work.
Last year, the number of 18- to 30-year-olds living with their parents grew to 20.7 million, a 3.9 percent gain from 2010.
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