In one state, parental unemployment has increased by 359 percent.
Unemployed parents are on the rise in a number of U.S. states, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data, which Newsweek has mapped.The share of children living with no parents in the labor force increased around one percentage point, up from seven percent in 2019 to eight percent in 2021, the data released in May, 2024, shows. Some states saw dramatic increases in the percentage of parents that were not in work, whereas only two saw a significant decrease.
In late 2023, the Center on Poverty & Social Policy found that single parent households with a parent out of work and double parent household with both parents out of work reached a historic high throughout the coronavirus pandemic.Some of its findings match that of the Census Bureau, with the report detailing that 'Las Vegas serves as the epicenter of parental unemployment.' It found that 35.
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