According to the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey, men who worked full-time, year-round in 2020 earned a median of $63,678—half...

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...

The average woman will have 1.7 children in her lifetime according to a National Center for Health Statistics' analysis of 2019 fertilit...

It used to be that men were much more likely than women to have a bachelor's degree. You can see this history in the educational attainm...

The U.S. population is getting better educated. But only in some places and not in others. Among the nation's 3,138 counties, the 58 per...

The nation's electorate is changing in every way. It is getting older, becoming more diverse, and is increasingly educated. Pew Research...

Modern American parents do not devote all that much time to child care. Instead, they depend on day care providers, schools, and extracurric...

Nearly one-third of the nation's employed workers told the Bureau of Labor Statistics in June that they had teleworked or worked at home...

Among high school graduates in 2019, fully 66 percent were enrolled in college by October 2019. This is not a record high enrollment rate, b...

The unemployment rate jumped to 14.7 percent in April—more than three times the 4.4 percent rate of March, according to the Bureau of Labor ...

The white working class is shrinking, according to an analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The question is why. The St. Louis ...

Over the past two decades, the labor force has become much more educated. In 2000, workers with no more than a high school diploma greatly o...

Foster care may be the best solution for a bad situation, but children who experience foster care face a lifetime of struggle, according to ...

If you read at least one book in the past year, you rank among the majority of Americans. According to a 2017 survey by the National Endowme...

Education leads to better health for reasons not fully understood. An Urban Institute study takes a closer look at health disparities by edu...

Most Americans do not trust others, according to the General Social Survey. Only 32 percent of the public agrees that most people can be tru...

Seventeen percent of the labor force is "underutilized," according to an analysis by the National Center for Education Statistics ...

Most high school graduates enroll in college. Many take on student loans to pay for their education. But how successful are they in earning ...

More than 40 percent of women who gave birth in 2017 had a bachelor's degree or more education, according to the National Center for Hea...

That's what the 54 percent majority of Americans think, according to a PRRI survey. Here are the percentages who feel this way by race a...