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5.7 percent of U.S. families included an unemployed person in 2025

June 8, 2026
In 2025, 5.7 percent of the nation's 85.9 million families included an unemployed person. Of these 4.9 million families with at least one unemployed family member, 71.8 percent also had at least one employed family member and 63.2 percent had a member employed full time. Full Text »

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