Grab your hankies and prepare to weep. A National Endowment for the Arts report (To Read or Not to Read) warns of a decline in book reading ...

"Consumers stopped buying pretty much everything," commented the Associated Press in a news story about the 0.6 percent decline in...

Percentage of high school students aged 16 to 17 who have jobs 2007: 21 2000: 30 Source: "Youth enrollment and employment during the sc...

Percent of mothers who are working within 12 months of giving birth 1961-65: 17 2000-02: 64 Source: Maternity Leave and Employment Patterns,...

Percentage of people aged 16 to 24 who are high school dropouts 1960: 27.2 1970: 15.0 1980: 14.1 1990: 12.1 2000: 10.9 2005: 9.4 Note: Dropo...

The government's annual estimates of homeownership have just been released, and the Census Bureau reports another decline in the nation...

The nation's youngest adults are the most liberal Americans. The millennial generation (the oldest of whom turn 31 this year) is the onl...

So much for America's entrepreneurial spirit. Self-employment is disappearing in the United States as workers cry uncle in the health in...

Every two years the Bureau of Labor Statistics produces a new set of occupational projections, looking ten years into the future. The list o...

The number of births to Hispanics surpassed 1 million for the first time in 2006, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Of...

Almost one-third of young adults aged 25 to 29 are cell phone only users, with no landline phone at home. The figure reached 31 percent this...

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...