If today's young adults postpone sexual intimacy until marriage, they have a long wait. The median age at first marriage among women rea...

Fifty million Americans (19 percent of the population aged 5 or older) speak a language other than English at home. While this is a substant...

Among U.S. workers, average travel time to work: 24.7 minutes. Source: American Community Survey

The increasingly shrill discussion about immigration is nothing new. Every decade or so, the public and the politicians engage in a heated d...

The shift from defined-benefit pension plans to defined-contribution retirement accounts over the past few decades has stripped tens of thou...

That is the question posed by the cover story in the May 12 issue of Life magazine, now a newspaper insert. Depicted on the cover is a famil...

Percentage of full-time college students who do not receive any type of financial aid: 24 Source: Education Statistics Quarterly

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...