Are you kidding? Americans have a long way to go before they show the slightest hint of green. The first results from the federal government...

In the run-up to the November election, we are engaged--once again--in ritual self-analysis. Who are the American people? What do we believe...

If you want to know how family income affects college enrollment, the Census Bureau no longer has the answers. The bureau eliminated table 1...

Here is the latest nugget from the American Time Use Survey: only 16 percent of Americans exercise on an average day. The time use survey, w...

If you have ever wondered where your tax dollars go, you can rest assured that at least a few cents go toward collecting and analyzing infor...

Americans are bummed out--some might even call us bitter. When asked whether the country is on the right track, a record 81 percent of the p...

Which generation will have the most clout in the 2008 presidential election? Although younger voters are becoming more important, the baby-b...

"Tapped-Out Consumers" was the recent headline in a Business Week article about the unfolding housing crisis. The New York Times c...

By now everyone has heard that teenagers and young adults do not know much about history, cannot locate Ohio on a map, and spend way too muc...

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...