The data is based on current surveys and censuses, according to Pew. Before this year, the highest measured value found 48 percent of young adults living with their parents in the 1940 census, at the end of the Depression. Pew found that the youngest adults — between 18 and 24 — made up 2.1 million of the total 2.6 million young adults included in the research. Racial and ethnic differences in young adults living with their parents have narrowed during the pandemic, compared with previous data, the report said. White young adults made up 68 percent of the increase in young adults who moved home; in past decades, White young adults have been less likely than Black, Hispanic and Asian young adults to live with at least one parent.

Source: Washington Post September 08, 2020 04:22 UTC