One step forward, two steps back. Median household income ticked up in February, only to fall back in March. According to Sentier Research, ...

Homeownership rate of householders aged 30 to 34, first quarter 2014: 47.5% Another decline in the homeownership rate of household...

How do you define the middle class—is it a number or a feeling? In a recent study, the Congressional Research Service examined both approach...

"As society becomes richer over time, succeeding cohorts acquire more wealth than their predecessors," notes an Urban Institute st...

Adopted children live in the most affluent households. Biological children are the least affluent. A Census Bureau report analyzes the natio...

As of July 1, 2013, there were 316,128,839 people in the United States. The Census Bureau recently released estimates of the population by ...

Forty-six percent of American adults say they read only hard copy books, according to a Harris survey. A slightly larger 48 percent read boo...

Every five years the federal government surveys the public about its use of "complementary" medicine, which is defined as "a ...

Will you dine on the world's most popular food today? The answer is "yes" if you plan to eat pizza, according to the USDA. In ...

There's a reason why economists are invited to testify before Congress and fêted at White House events while demographers are relegated ...

Among people aged 55 or older, earnings as a share of total income by age... Aged 55 to 61: 73% Aged 62 to 64: 55% Aged 65 to 69: 32% A...

Here's an interesting exercise. Take the median income of American men since 1950, adjust it for inflation, and rank it from highest to ...

The average household spends about $1,500 on travel each year, according to the Consumer Expenditure Survey. The biggest spenders on travel ...

According to a recent Gallup survey , only 34 percent of the American public worries a great deal about global warming. Maybe that's bec...

For recent college graduates, underemployment is a bigger problem than unemployment, according to a study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New...

A study of 2 billion retail transactions at a discount chain with thousands of stores reveals differences by state in the frequency with whi...

In the field of demography, rapid change is rare. But rapid change is what we have today as the Affordable Care Act extends health insurance...

There's a yawning gap in the pension participation of older workers by income. The Center for Retirement Research of Boston College anal...

Cell phones are popular among Americans aged 65 or older, but smartphones are not. According to a survey by Pew Research Internet Project, f...

Just 10 occupations employ more than one in five (21 percent) American workers. Here are those occupations and the annual average wage for f...