When asked whether they think the United States is divided into "haves" and "have-nots," 52 percent of Americans say it ...

American men are now more likely to receive unemployment checks than income from non-farm self employment. According to the Current Populati...

The average household spent, out-of-pocket, 47 percent more for health insurance in 2010 than in 2000, after adjusting for inflation. Sour...

For a good overview of the Census Bureau's problem and subsequent correction of the 2010 census count of same-sex couple households, see...

If you thought the election of 2010 was a fluke, you might be right. Voters in 2010 were older and whiter than voters in 2008, as is usually...

Following each decennial census, the Census Bureau revisits and refigures its annual population estimates for the previous decade. Those est...

The average annual spending of householders aged 35 to 44 fell by $6,222 between 2006 (the year household spending peaked) and 2010, after a...

The number of married couples in which both husband and wife work full-time fell by more than 2.5 million between the start of the Great Rec...

The average household spent $48,109 in 2010, according to the Consumer Expenditure Survey. This is 8 percent less than the $52,349 (in 2010 ...

If so, join the crowd. More than one in five Americans think they will be a millionaire within the decade. When asked, "How likely do y...

Only 50.8 percent of children under age 5 are non-Hispanic white, according to my analysis of the 2010 American Community Survey . Nearly ha...

Smoking varies greatly by education, and for some strange reason no one is more likely to smoke than people with a GED--specifically a GED. ...

The median value of the nation's owned homes was $179,900 in 2010, according to the American Community Survey. This was down from the pe...

The 2010 homeownership rates estimated by the American Community Survey (an annual survey replacing the census long form questionnaire) conf...

More than 25 years ago (in 1985), when I was the editor-in-chief of American Demographics magazine, I wrote an editorial called "The A...

Why should you care? Because the American Community Survey is the source of all local area socioeconomic statistics. The ACS replaced the ...

This is an update of the comparison between the Great Recession and the Great Depression posted by Demo Memo in February 2011. In that anal...

The Great Recession was supposed to have ended in June 2009, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. But the release last wee...

Seventy-three percent of cell phone owners use text messaging, according to a new report by Pew. Average number of text messages sent/receiv...

Percent of people aged 65 or older who are poor: 9.0%. Percent of people aged 65 or older who would be poor without Social Security: 48%. ...