Nearly one-fourth of the American population is first- or second-generation, according to the Census Bureau's latest detailed tables on ...

Every year, many thousands of people are murdered in the United States--12,996 in 2010, according to the FBI. The murder weapons, ranked by ...

Percent of parents with children under age 18 who describe their neighborhood as a place where... People help each other: 71% People watc...

Percentage of instructional faculty in degree-granting post-secondary institutions (i.e. college professors) who are employed full-time... ...

Slowly, very slowly, the story of the Great Recession is beginning to unfold. It is happening slowly because it takes years for demographic ...

Percent who think cutting government spending will significantly increase jobs in the United States, by generation... Millennials (18-34):...

Among all adults, 47 percent report having a gun in their home or on their property, up from 41 percent a year earlier. Here are the numbers...

The Census Bureau's USA Counties web site has been updated with information from the 2010 census, the 2007 Survey of Business Owners, a...

For an analysis of household income inequality in the United States, see the Census Bureau's new report U.S. Neighborhood Income Inequal...

Many baby boomers are deciding now whether to buy long-term care insurance. For those trying to make a decision, it might help to know the c...

Rank of Halloween among Americans' favorite holidays: 3. Source: Harris Interactive

Percent of Americans who participated in the 10 most popular leisure activities in the past 12 months... Dining out: 49% Entertaining at ...

In 2010, the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond published a report entitled, "The Rise in Long-Term Unemployment: Potential Causes and Im...

"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...