Very interesting news from the National Opinion Research Center , which fields the Federal Reserve Board's Survey of Consumer Finances (...

Take a look at any economic indicator lately, and you're likely to swoon as the trend line veers into a vertical plunge. This is called ...

Where are the pitchforks? Where are the "tea parties" to protest our broken health insurance system? A look at the demographics of...

Percentage of American workers who are "very confident" they will have enough money to live comfortably in retirement: 13. Source:...

Millions of Americans cannot believe what is happening to them, and with good reason. Most of the nation's working-aged population (anyo...

In 2007, a record 4,317,000 babies were born in the United States. It took exactly 50 years to break the old record of 4,308,000 established...

Percentage of Americans who say there is nothing wrong with sexual relations between two adults of the same sex, by age 18 to 29: 52% 30 to...

Percentage of people who get most of their news from 1. Television: 48 percent 2. Internet: 22 percent 3. Newspapers: 20 percent Source: 20...

In a recent online poll, Time magazine asked its readers who was most to blame for the current economic crisis. Readers rated the guilt of ...

Yes, the homeownership rate is down. According to the the latest numbers from the Census Bureau, 67.8 percent of households owned a home in ...

Between 2000 and 2007, the Tchotchke Index fell 33 percent, after adjusting for inflation. What is the Tchotchke Index? It is the amount of ...

The chart above shows the percentage of construction and food service workers on the job during each hour of the day, based on 2003-07 data ...

Percentage of people aged 18 or older who have not visited the doctor in the past year, by health insurance coverage status, 2007... Private...

Two million Americans are trying to make a living as artists, according to a new report by the National Endowment for the Arts. Every decade...

Conveniently, every six months the federal government updates the nation on how many households use cell phones only. The latest survey, tak...

The empty cash registers finally got their attention. Businesses large and small are in a panic, wondering where their customers went. Last ...

Recently released statistics from the 2007 Consumer Expenditure Survey show that average household spending on cell phone service has surged...

Oh, American consumer, how we miss you! Consumer spending is falling at a 3.1 percent annual rate, according to the latest statistics from t...

An article in today's New York Times on the rising cost of college includes the following sentence: "Although college enrollment h...

The average American woman weighs 164.7 pounds, according to the latest government measurements. Since she is only 5 feet 4 inches tall, th...