The average household spent $2,236 on food from restaurants and carry-outs in 2013—10 percent less than in 2007, after adjusting for inflati...

The Baby-Boom is no longer the largest generation. Millennials surpassed Boomers in size in 2011, and the gap between them is growing each y...

Less informed consumers buy brand-name products when a less expensive equivalent is available, according to a National Bureau of Economic Re...

Of the 4 million babies born in the United States in 2011, a substantial 59,631 could be considered miracle births—they were born through as...

Percent of full-time students attending four-year colleges in pursuit of a bachelor's degree who complete their degree in... 4 years: ...

53% of voters under age 40 reported voting for the Democratic candidate. 56% of voters aged 65 or older reported voting for the Republican ...

How many people retire at the age they had planned? An analysis of the University of Michigan's Health and Retirement Study (HRS) has th...

Percent who plan on purchasing toys as gifts this holiday season... Parents: 82% Pet owners: 52% Source: Harris Interactive, Anticipate...

Many of the nation's divorced or widowed singles say they don't want to marry again... Percent of divorced/widowed who do not want...

Americans are ready to take their healthcare to the next level—self monitoring. A Harris Interactive survey finds nearly half of the public ...

Nearly nine out of ten Americans live in a household with a computer: 88 percent of the population has a computer at home—83 percent have a ...

Young adults are packing their bags and moving to the city. The nation's most urban counties gained more than 1 million 25-to-34-year-ol...

The number of veterans in the U.S. is shrinking. The 19.6 million veterans of 2013 were well below the 26.4 million of 2000, according to th...

Texting is the dominant form of communication among Americans, according to a Gallup survey. Thirty-nine percent of Americans say they texte...

Nearly two out of three Americans believe that "having a gun in the house makes it a safer place to be," according to a Gallup sur...

Most Americans can expect to live well into old age. It wasn't always this way. In 1901, only 13.5 percent of newborns could expect to l...

Americans spend more at restaurants than they think they do. We know this because the Consumer Expenditure Survey asks respondents how much...

More than one-third of Boomers plan to move when they retire. A survey of Americans aged 50 to 69 found a substantial 37 percent saying they...

There's a lot of handwringing about the nation's poor, and well there should be. But keep this in mind as the debate rages: poverty ...

Six states produce most of the nation's pumpkins: Illinois, California, Ohio, Michigan, New York, and Pennsylvania. In Illinois, 77 perc...