Foreign-born women as a percentage of the nation's stay-at-home moms: 34 percent. Source: Census Bureau, America's Families and Livi...

We all know that Americans are economically stressed. What we don't know is where the stresses are causing fractures. There are clues in...

The average American spent $57 yesterday, according to a Gallup survey . This figure excludes normal household bills and major purchases suc...

The median income of non-Hispanic white men aged 45 to 54 fell by 10 percent between 2000 and 2008, after adjusting for inflation--a loss of...

Ok, this is weird--and unprecedented. Between 2008 and 2009, the number of households headed by people under age 65 DECLINED. This has never...

Looking again at the latest household numbers released by the Census Bureau last week, it is surprising--perhaps shocking--that the number o...

It is no surprise that median household income fell between 2007 and 2008, but the size of the decline is surprising. The big news in the Ce...

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...