The public is wildly wrong when it comes to estimating the size of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender population in the U.S., accord...

Median annual earnings of men aged 25 to 34 who work full-time by educational attainment, 2000 and 2013 (in 2013 dollars), and change in ea...

State of residence is becoming a matter of life and death for many. Low-income Americans who live in states that refused to expand Medicaid ...

Between 2010 and 2014, the population of the nation's 749 largest cities (incorporated places with populations of 50,000 or more in 2014...

Married couples are far more likely than other household types to own their home. In 2014, fully 80.3 percent of couples were homeowners ver...

Among the nation's public school students in 2012, nearly half (49 percent) were Asian, Black, Hispanic, or another minority. Only 51 pe...

How many Americans live in frontier and remote areas of the country? That depends on what the words "frontier" and "remote...

What has the Affordable Care Act done for the nation's most vulnerable—50-to-64-year-olds? This is the age when illness often strikes, a...

The Great Recession still lingers for many Americans, according to a survey by Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies. When the nation...

Although most of the nation's Hispanics speak Spanish at home, a growing share speak English proficiently. Fully 68 percent of Hispanics...

What would dentists find if they traveled around the country and examined the dental health of a representative sample of Americans? They wo...

Boomers are less likely to claim Social Security benefits at age 62 (the earliest possible age) than their counterparts were in 1985, accord...

Overall, 47 percent of the nation's workers say the income from their job alone is enough to meet their family's usual monthly expen...

Remember the boom in the housing market—those heady days when even young adults were eager to embrace home buying? Between 1995 and 2005, th...

Nearly half of Americans are currently taking a prescription drug, according to Health, United States, 2014 . In the past 30 days, 47 percen...

The 53 percent majority of American babies are born between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., thanks to induced deliveries, Cesareans, and other miracles o...

Hispanics are less likely to have health insurance than any other segment of the population. The problem is particularly acute among those o...

Older Americans are more interested in politics than younger adults. When asked the question, "How interested would you say you persona...

How many of the oldest Americans run out of money before they die? One in eight, according to a study by the Employee Benefit Research Insti...

For most families with children under age 18, all parents in the household are employed. Here are the percentages in 2014 by type of family ...