In the aftermath of the Great Recession, the decades-long increase in the earnings of women who work full-time came to an end. In 2012, the ...

Just how warmly do Americans feel toward religious groups? A survey by the Public Religion Research Institute asked respondents to rate reli...

Twenty-four percent of Americans aged 16 or older owned an e-book reader as of September 2013, according to Pew Internet and American Life P...

Go to college. Education, and in particular a college degree, appears to be the key to a long-lasting marriage, according to a study of marr...

Inspired by Scott Wallsten's excellent NBER study of how many hours per day people participate in the time use category "computer ...

The earnings of Americans are modest. Among those with earnings (wages, salaries, and self-employment), median monthly personal earnings ran...

"Birth-year cohort effects" explain why Americans born in the 1930s and 1940s have done better economically than those born in the...

A Pew survey of the nation's Hispanics finds that the 54 percent majority usually identify themselves by their family's country of o...

That is the provocative title of a study by Scott Wallsten of the Technology Policy Institute, which examines how much time Americans spend ...

Older Americans are frequent visitors to hospital emergency departments. In a year's time, the emergency department visit rate is 511 fo...

Percent of all Americans who think the health insurance exchange websites are working "fairly/very" well: 29% Percent of health...

Most Americans plan to work after they retire, according to an  Associated Press-NORC survey of people aged 50 or older. When asked how lik...

Thirty-five percent of Americans aged 16 or older owned a tablet computer in September 2013, according to a Pew survey. This figure is up fr...

Cola it is! Cola is more popular than coffee in the average American household. When grocery shopping during an average week, 29 percent of ...

The average household was home to just 2.54 people in 2013, the smallest on record. The economic turmoil of the Great Recession barely distu...

The good news is that obesity has not increased in the past few years. The bad news is that more than one-third of American adults are not j...

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A substantial 5 percent of Americans aged 18 or older, and 8 percent of 18-to-29-year-olds, are currently taking online courses, according t...

The number of Americans without health insurance will drop sharply in all but one state after the Affordable Care Act goes into effect in 20...

The Great Recession and its aftermath changed the lives of young adults, and the nation is experiencing the consequences. The number of nucl...