Percentage of Americans who know someone named Kevin: 67. Source: 2006 General Social Survey

According to the 2006 General Social Survey, a shockingly small percentage of Americans uphold the rights granted to them by the Constitutio...

Test scores alone are no longer enough to get your kid into the top tier colleges. College admissions officials now demand extracurriculars ...

Paralysis in the housing market can be diagnosed in the latest statistics on geographic mobility. Fewer homeowners moved between 2005 and 20...

There is more bad news emerging from the 2007 Current Population Survey results. The percentage of people without health insurance climbed t...

This morning the Census Bureau released the latest report on the finances of American households—the results of the Current Population Surve...

Number of first-class letters mailed in the United States... 1994: 55 billion 2006: 42 billion Source: United States Postal Service, Reven...

Percentage of Americans who give the nation's public schools a grade of A or B: 21 Percentage of public school parents who give the sch...

Now you can find out. Let's say you are a librarian in Chicago, and you are wondering how your pay stacks up against the wages of your c...

Eighty-five percent of Americans have health insurance, and 60 percent are covered by an employer-provided health insurance plan, according ...

Percentage of Americans who "strongly agree" that America is a better country than most other countries... Aged 18 to 29: 25 Ag...

Sometimes the most interesting bits of information come from the most unlikely places. The latest update on cell phone use is contained in ...

When it comes to money, what worries you the most? When Gallup asked Americans this question, retirement ranked number one. Fifty-six perce...

Working-age Americans are going to the dentist less frequently. The percentage of people aged 20 to 64 who have been to a dentist in the pas...

Percentage of households with access to public transportation in their neighborhood American: 54 German: 85 Source: Bureau of the Census, ...

According to estimates by the United Nations, 175 million people (2.9 percent of the world's population) live outside their country of b...

Who populates the gifted classes, honors programs, and advanced placement courses in the nation's middle and high schools? The nation...

Percentage of parents who say they never feel angry at their children: 46. Source: Census Bureau, A Child's Day: 2003, Survey of Income...

Now that most women are in the labor force, men are doing more around the house. But women still shoulder most of the burden for a variety o...

The homeownership rate fell for the second year in a row, dropping to 68.8 percent of households in 2006. This is down from the record high ...