More Americans are single and faring worse financially than those with partners

Not only has the number of single adults in the U.S. ballooned since 1990, so has the gulf in economic fortunes between individuals who live with a spouse or partner and those living alone.

The biggest money gains have come from partnered women, a recent study by the Pew Research Center found, while single men fared the worst financially.

“Underlying some of these shifts is that women today have more choice than they ever have in the past,” Misty Heggeness, U.S. Census Bureau principal economist, told Yahoo Money. “They can make choices from an economically independent framework.”

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