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Definitions: The percentage of children under age 18 living in families where at least one parent does not have a job, has been actively looking for work in the past 4 weeks, and is currently available for work. For children living in single-parent families, this means that the resident parent is unemployed. For children living in married-couple families, this means that either or both parents are unemployed.
Data Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey (CPS) Basic Monthly Data Files, 2007 - 2011.
Footnotes: Updated April 2012. N.A. - Data not available.
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