Labor force participation rate of married women with children under age one: 57%. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Character...

Homeownership rate of householders aged 30 to 34, first quarter 2013: 48.9% The homeownership rate of householders aged 30 to 34 c...

Eighty-two percent of Gen Xers are homeowners, according to a MetLife study of Americans born between 1965 and 1976 (ages 36 to 47). Among G...

Percent distribution of retired workers by when they retired... Earlier than planned: 47% About when planned: 43% Later than planned: 6%...

The 55 percent majority of Americans agree with the statement: "The way things are in America, people like me and my family have a good...

Overall, only 31 percent of American households are free of debt. Here is the percentage of households without debt by age of householder......

How many workers die on the job? The federal government knows not only how many but also how they died in gory detail. The most recent stati...

Overall, 16 percent of Americans donated money to a political campaign or cause in the past 12 months. The 56 percent majority of donors gav...

Median household income was stable in March 2013, according to the latest monthly update from Sentier Research. The March median of $51,320 ...

A surprisingly large number of Americans borrow money from "alternative financial services," a term coined by researchers to descr...

The 69 percent majority of American households are in debt, owing a median of $70,000 in 2011. Here is the distribution of the nation's ...

Here are the top six answers when Americans were asked the open-ended question, "What one subject should K-12 schools emphasize more th...

Percentage of all workers with neither medical nor retirement benefits: 23% Percentage of low-wage workers with neither medical nor retirem...

Among parents aged 15 to 44, percent who have had a child outside of marriage... Men: 47.3% Women: 49.3% Source: National Center for He...

When travelers from abroad visit the United States, most do not venture beyond a single state, according to the Office of Travel and Tourism...

Student loans are crowding cars and homes out of the lives of young adults, according to a Liberty Street Economics analysis by Meta Brown a...

The next time you dash across a busy street, think about this: between 2001 and 2010, an astonishing 47,392 pedestrians were killed by motor...

Among the 3.2 million young people who graduated from high school in 2012, about a third (or 1.1 million) did not enroll in college. Their u...

In 2011, more than 27 million Americans traveled abroad by air, according to the Office of Travel and Tourism Industries. Thirty-nine percen...

Nationally, the rental vacancy rate was 7.4 percent in 2011. Among all metropolitan areas, the lowest rental vacancy rate (0.0 percent!) was...