This is a tale of two age groups, the one overcome by a wave of economic change and the other triumphantly riding the wave —or so it might s...

Think you're working harder than ever? Not so, says new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. A study by Mark Agular, a seni...

Fifty-three percent of Americans live in one of the nation's 673 coastal counties, according to the Census Bureau, down from 54 percent ...

Let's talk about the labor force participation rate of women again. This time, let's look at labor force rates by Hispanic origin. H...

The steady stream of articles about the baby-boom generation's impending retirement often state as fact that funds in the Social Securit...

The pharmaceutical industry wants to know. And the American Time Use Survey has the answer. On an average night, 3.7 percent of Americans ag...

The homeownership rate of householders under age 25 climbed from 17 to 26 percent between 1985 and 2005. The number of homeowners in the ag...

Today's New York Times reports that, after decades of steady increases, women's labor force participation "has stalled, even s...

What accounts for the decline in the homeownership rate between 2004 and 2005? One possible explanation is the economic malaise of the past ...

The Census Bureau just posted its 2005 annual average estimates of homeownership here . Interestingly, the nation's overall homeownershi...

According to a Pew Research Center report , 42 percent of adults with at least one living parent see or talk with a parent every day. In 198...

The 2006 Winter Olympics is a showcase of talent for winter sports. So who came out on top? Germany may have won the most medals—29 of the 2...

Results of the 2004 Survey of Consumer finances , released yesterday by the Federal Reserve Board, show a decline in the proportion of house...

Results from the long-awaited 2004 Survey of Consumer Finances were released by the Federal Reserve Board this morning, and number cruncher...

The Federal Reserve Board released the long-awaited update of the triennial Survey of Consumer Finances at 9:30 this morning. It is availabl...

This should give you pause: During the next 15 years, the baby-boom generation will shrink by 10 percent. Between 2005 and 2020, the number ...

Poverty rate of the elderly in 2004: 9.8% Poverty rate of the elderly if there were no Social Security benefits: 41.1%

Want to know how the 9/11 terrorist attacks affected household spending on airline fares? You can find out in the 2005 Consumer Expenditure ...

Among people aged 18 to 64, only 45 percent have health insurance through their own employer.

Believe it or not, the government asks and tells. According to recently released results from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (NSF...