For 39 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has tracked the labor force experience of a cohort of Baby Boomers as they aged from their teen...

Nearly half of U.S. adults have ever tried marijuana, according to a Gallup survey. Gallup has been tracking marijuana use for decades. A ha...

Boomers are waiting longer to retire than their parents did. Only about one in four Boomers born in 1957 claimed Social Security retired wor...

Divorce may not yet be the norm in the United States, but it is a common experience—especially for the Baby-Boom generation. Overall, one-th...

The percentage of Americans who belong to a religious congregation fell below 50 percent in 2020, according to a Gallup survey. This is the ...

The great majority of Americans know someone who has had Covid-19. Fully 77 percent of adults personally know someone who has been sick with...

The Baby-Boom generation dominates both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. According to an analysis of the 117th Congress by ...

Millions of Americans are missing the arts. It has been more than six months since the public has been free to attend art festivals, live mu...

Do you listen to background music while doing other things such as driving, puttering around the house, exercising, and so on? More than one...

The Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies (TCRS) has been surveying the nation's workers about their retirement plans for two decad...

The non-Hispanic white share of the population ranges from a low of just under 50 percent in the Recession generation (defined as children u...

A Demo Memo analysis of the Census Bureau's 2019 population estimates by single-year of age reveals the ongoing decline of Gen X and old...

Now that we're spending a lot more time at home, we're sure to be reading more books. Right? Maybe not. While the overall percentage...

Lists, rankings, and reviews. The end of a decade brings a torrent of retrospective. If you're tired of looking back, then let's loo...

Nearly half of American households (47 percent) headed by people aged 30 or older experienced an unexpected financial challenge in the past ...

How many of the Democratic presidential candidates are baby boomers? Not as many as you think, unless you're a reporter who assumes anyo...

Nearly one-third of Americans aged 18 or older (32 percent) say they can speak a language other than English, according to the 2018 General ...

Going to college was not the norm for the Baby-Boom generation. Among high school graduates born from 1960 through 1964, the youngest Boomer...

Democrats and Republicans agree about one thing—Americans of both political persuasions want to see an astronaut go to Mars. The 55 percent ...

It is not the norm to have a close friend who is at least 15 years older or younger than you are, according to an AARP survey. Only 37 perce...