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WASHINGTON (AP) - Nearly 4 million children live with parents who had no jobs in the previous year, an increase of 1 million since the beginning of the decade, a national charity says.
That's 5 percent of all 72.5 million children living in the United States.
In an annual report being released Wednesday, the Annie E. Casey Foundation said that's just one reason why children overall are doing worse economically than they were a few years ago. The number of children living in poverty, for example, rose to 18 percent in 2003 from 17 percent three years earlier.
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