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Stay at home millennials

Today, more millennials are moving back home even though the economy is improving and wages are inching upward.

Recently, Pew Research Center revealed that a third of young adults today are more likely to live with their parents than they were before the Great Recession.

Unemployment among young adults has been dropping since 2010, as has the number of millennials living independently.

In 2007, prior to the recession, about 42.7 million individuals in that age group lived on their own.

In the years in between, the population of 18 to 34-year olds grew by three million, yet the share of millenn...

 

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