Anyone who thinks the media are paying too much attention to every penny increase in the price of gasoline should take a refresher on the ra...

More than 1 million children in the United States were being homeschooled in 2003, according to a newly released report by the National Ce...

The more restaurants per capita in a state, the greater the weight gain of the state's population during the past 25 years, finds a stud...

With gas prices heading ever higher, it may ease the pain to know that a handful of items cost less today than they did nearly a decade ago....

Percentage of Americans who are overweight: 65 Percentage of Americans who think they are overweight: 39 Source: Pew Research Center

It seems to take forever for the Census Bureau to release the data from its Survey of Business Owners , part of the economic censuses fielde...

Hispanics as a percent of the U.S. population: 14 Hispanics as a percent of voters in the 2004 presidential election: 6

The latest estimates of health insurance coverage generated by the National Center for Health Statistics can be found in Health Insurance Co...

A new survey of cell phone use, How Americans Use Their Cell Phones, by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, the Associated Press,...

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...