One-fifth of households in the United States are headed by retirees, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2020 Consumer Expendit...

Which occupation is going to shed the most jobs over the next decade? Just as the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects the occupations likely...

Younger adults are being hit especially hard by Covid-19 shutdowns, reports Pew Research Center. Workers under age 45 account for 56 percent...

Among the 48 million women who work full-time, year-round, 1.4 million had median earnings of $100,000 or more, according to the Census Bure...

As the coronavirus threatens to keep many Americans at home, now is the time to review paid sick leave in the United States. While 76 percen...

The older workforce is large and getting larger. Workers aged 55 or older accounted for 24 percent of the nation's employed in 2019. Thi...

Millennials account for a larger share of the labor force than any other generation. Among the nation's employed in 2018, a substantial ...

Want your children or grandchildren to make a lot of money? The Bureau of Labor Statistics has suggestions for them, depending on how long t...

In 2006, the Bureau of Labor Statistics projected that occupational employment would grow 10.4 percent by 2016. Boy, were they wrong. The ac...

The suicide rate among the working-age population (aged 16 to 64) is rising, reports the CDC. To try to "inform suicide prevention effo...

Forty-five—that's the median age of the nation's full-time workers aged 25 or older, according to the Census Bureau, with almost no ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics divides the U.S. workforce into more than 800 individual occupations, and it tracks the earnings of workers i...

"All occupations are employing workers with more formal education," reports the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, and this is bad...

Every two years the Bureau of Labor Statistics updates its employment, occupation, and industry projections for the decade ahead. The latest...

Many jobs in the U.S. require physical strength. The Bureau of Labor Statistics defines "heavy work" as jobs that require workers ...

There's a new survey in town: the Occupational Requirements Survey, conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, provides information ab...

Men accounted for 53 percent of employed workers in 2015, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But the male share of workers by occu...

Women accounted for 47 percent of employed workers in 2015, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But the female share of workers by ...

The number of Americans employed in information technology has increased 10-fold in the past four-plus decades, according to a Census Bureau...

How do you determine the cardiovascular health of Americans by occupation? You measure seven different cardiovascular health metrics (not sm...