How serious a problem is racism in the United States? It depends on who you ask.  Overall, only 30 percent of adults say racism is an "...

The college enrollment rate dropped in 2020. Only 62.7 percent of young adults who graduated from high school in 2020 had enrolled in colleg...

Every year the Bureau of Labor Statistics issues a report on the employment characteristics of families. The most recent report, with annual...

"It is a lot more difficult to be a Black person in this country than it is to be a White person." Agree or disagree? Overall, ju...

The summer of protests has moved the needle, but not for everyone. The percentage of Americans who say recent police killings of Black men a...

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 ...

Among the nation's 16-to-24-year-olds, 5.4 percent are high school dropouts, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. ...

The white working class is declining not only as a share of the total U.S. population but also in absolute numbers, according to a Federal R...

Feelings of perceived discrimination are linked to income for both whites and blacks, according to an analysis of survey data by Ana Hernånd...

When Americans are asked whether Blacks in their community are treated less fairly than Whites, attitudes are strikingly different depending...

Many students who enroll at a four-year college fail to earn their bachelor's degree, according to the latest figures from the National ...

When the white working class sneezes, America catches a cold. The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis examines what may be ailing America in a...

How many years of work life remain for men and women at age 50? That depends on their educational attainment, according to a study published...

When asked whether America's best days are ahead of us or behind us, a substantial 47 percent of working-class whites (defined as those ...

Most Americans have a personal connection to prescription painkiller abuse, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey. The 56 percent m...

The death rate of middle-aged white Americans is rising, according to a study by Princeton economists Angus Deaton (winner of the 2015 Nobel...

In a reversal of past trends, the white population is growing in the nation's largest cities, according to an analysis of the American C...

The attitudes of Americans toward the treatment of Blacks by the criminal justice system is changing, in part due to public outrage over the...

"Do you generally think of the police more as friends, more as enemies, or don't you think of them in either of these ways?" a...

What accounts for the enormous gap in the wealth of blacks versus non-Hispanic whites? The wealth gap is far greater than the income gap. Th...