"Comments on Immigration Alienate Some Hispanics," was the headline of a recent  New York Times article . The story examined whet...

Percentage of Americans who watch NFL football... All: 64% Male: 73% Female: 55% Source: Harris Interactive , America's Sport--A M...

You probably heard that the Statistical Abstract was threatened by budget cuts. Now those threats have become reality. An announcement has a...

In the third quarter of 2011, median weekly earnings of the nation's full-time wage and salary workers climbed to $753, up 1.8 percent f...

Hilarious, and too true:  Generation X Doesn't Want To Hear It .

Most of the states in which households are least likely to receive public assistance are also the states that rank among the poorest in the...

More than one in ten Americans aged 12 or older (10.8 percent) take an antidepressant medication, according to the National Center for Healt...

A lot more than poverty-level income, which the Census Bureau defines as an annual income of $11,344 for one person and $22,113 for a family...

Percentage of American workers who are of normal weight and have no chronic conditions: 14%. Source: Gallup, Unhealthy U.S. Workers' A...

Are you yearning for beautiful and insightful graphic representations of long-term demographic trends in the United States? If so, then Demo...

What explains the sharp drop in employment rates among high school students over the past quarter century--a drop of nearly 20 percentage po...

There is not much residential construction going on out there, and what is being built fails to address the new forces shaping the housing m...

Average property loss caused by selected crimes... Bank robbery: $4,410 Convenience store robbery: $782 Residential burglary: $2,137 Po...

When pre-retirees (full-time workers aged 56 to 65) are asked which one financial product or service is more important to them now than it w...

The ongoing decline in births has made headlines in the past few days, following the release of a Pew Research Center analysis . I reported ...

The nation's prisons house almost as many Americans as its college dorms. The prison population numbered 2.3 million in 2010, only sligh...

An analysis of retirement savings behavior by the Employee Benefit Research Institute finds surprisingly few workers participating in 401(k)...

Forty-two percent of the public owns an Apple device such as an iPhone, iPad, or iPod, according to  Pew Research Center . Among them, 21 pe...

Percentage responding "yes" to the question, "Have there been times in the past 12 months when you did not have enough money ...

The percentage of never-married teenage boys aged 15 to 19 who have ever had sexual intercourse fell sharply--from 60 to 42 percent between ...