Nearly 2 million children in the United States are homeschooled, according to a report from the National Center for Education Statistics. In...

Let's face it: most of the public does not understand health insurance. That's the finding of a Carnegie Mellon University economist...

Many Americans depend on prescription drugs to help them sleep. According to a report by the National Center for Health Statistics, 4 percen...

Forty-two percent of Americans do not have a 401(k), or an IRA, or a pension plan, or stocks,  or mutual funds. Here is the percentage w...

Among the nation's 81 million family households in 2012, only 3.7 million (or 4.6 percent) were multigenerational—defined as three gener...

In any given year, a small proportion of Americans spend big on health care. The big spenders are those unfortunate enough to have a heart a...

Fully 70 percent of Americans have a broadband connection to the Internet at home, according to a Pew survey. The figure rises to 80 percent...

Percentage of Americans with children enrolled in kindergarten through 12th grade who think their child is getting a better education than ...

In 2010, 58.3 percent of male newborns discharged from hospitals had been circumcised during their hospitalization, according to the Nationa...

Percentage of Americans whose mother worked for at least one year while they were growing up, by generation... 83% of Millennials 80% of ...

Percentage of Millennials (aged 18 to 36) who say they could live without... TV: 35% Sex: 20% Internet: 17% Source: Harris Interactive...

Percent of people aged 18 or older who say they have "experienced discrimination or been treated unfairly because of race or ethnicity...

So how are we doing? That's the question asked by Sentier Research in its review of our economic status on the 4th anniversary of the en...

Only 60.5 percent of 16-to-24-year-olds were working or looking for work last month, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Typically,...

After adjusting for inflation, the federal minimum wage declined by 22 percent between 1979 and 2013. Here is the federal minimum wage in b...

It's not patients, but physicians who cause the variation in Medicare expenditures by region, according to a National Bureau of Economic...

More than one in five men (22 percent) have experienced long-term unemployment during their career, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistic...

Older Americans are faring much better than younger ones, and they have been for well more than a decade. Between 2000 and 2011, the median ...

Children under age 18 by health insurance status in 2011 (and in 1996), by type of insurance... Private insurance: 56% (68%) Public insur...

Raising a child costs 23 percent more today than in 1960, according to the USDA. The average middle-income married couple can expect to spen...