(Personal Finance Bulletin) — The overall average rate of unemployment now stands at 9.7% of the American work force age 20 and over. There is a subgroup hidden within the data. Single women with children at 11.6% are twice as likely to be unemployed as married women with a spouse in the homeat 6.1%. The proportion has remained the same for a decade but now collectively the rates are 68% higher than before the recession. The results are exacerbated during difficult economic times. On average a woman earns 77% of that earned by the average man. Children as well are disproportionately affected. Families headed by a single mother have 20% of the nation’s children.
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