A new study has found a big drop in obesity among the nation's 2-to-5-year-olds, according to a New York Times article . The percentage ...

The nation's homeownership rate fell to 65.1 percent in 2013, according to annual statistics released by the Census Bureau. The 2013 hom...

Is "administrative bloat" a reason for the rising cost of college? According to an analysis of labor force trends at institutions ...

Among the nation's 2.1 million principal farm operators (the person primarily responsible for the day-to-day operation of the farm), mos...

Only 5.9 percent of baby boomers moved between March 2012 and March 2013, according to a Demo Memo analysis of the Census Bureau's geogr...

Among the nation's married couples, wives are more educated than husbands in 20.7 percent. This figure exceeds, for the first time, the ...

Poor health leads to an earlier retirement, and a National Bureau of Economic Research paper documents just how much health matters. In a si...

Between December 2007 and December 2013, the labor force participation rate of people aged 16 or older fell from 66.0 to 62.8 percent. How m...

Average number of days per year Americans spend more than half of the day in bed because of illness or injury, by age... Total adults: 4.0...

Question: "During the past 7 days, how many meals did you get that were prepared away from home such as restaurants, fast food places, ...

This is a rare: 45 years of survey results on the attitudes of blacks and whites toward racial discrimination. Harris has accomplished this ...

A January 2014 Gallup survey has documented a downward tick in the percentage of Americans without health insurance. On January 1st, health ...

Young adults are splitting into Haves and Have-Nots based on their education, according to a Pew Research Center report. While this is a lon...

Maybe it was the Great Recession, or pharmaceutical advertising, or the advice of doctors. Whatever the reason, the result is clear: a boomi...

Geniuses are getting older. That's the conclusion of a National Bureau of Economic Research literature review and analysis. During the 2...

One in every 35 adults in the United States is in prison, jail, on probation or parole. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Correctional...

Is the recent growth of cities a consequence of the economic shock experienced by America's young adults? The Great Recession idled mil...

Now that a bachelor's degree is as common as a high school diploma used to be, Americans are in a mad rush to get even more education. ...

We're soon going to know a whole lot more about the geography of smartphone and Internet use. Beginning in the fall of 2014, the Census ...

Everyone knows that the cost of college has gone through the roof. But everyone might be wrong. An analysis of the net cost of college by Sc...