Is the IRA more of a tax shelter for the affluent rather than a vehicle for retirement savings? It looks that way. According to an Employee ...

Only 61 percent of the nation's private-sector workers get paid sick leave. Here is the percentage with paid sick leave by occupation......

The old are wealthier than the young, a pattern that has long been true. But the gap is growing, according to an analysis by the Federal Res...

Homeownership rate of householders aged 30 to 34, second quarter 2015: 45.2% The homeownership rate of households headed by people...

Household income fell slightly in June 2015, but the decline was not statistically significant. June's median household income stood at...

Despite all the talk about "illegals" in the United States, their number has declined slightly since the peak year of 2007, accord...

Today's teenagers are not as sexually active as teens were a decade or two ago. That explains, in part, why the birth rate of 15-to-19-y...

Among workers in the private sector, this is how much health insurance cost in 2014... Average total premium Employee only: $5,832 Emplo...

The demographics of mid-term elections are strikingly different from the demographics of presidential elections. In mid-terms, older non-His...

United States Total U.S. population: 316,128,839 Hispanic population: 53,986,412 (17% of the total population) Cuban-origin Hispanics: 2,...

Higher education leads to better health. Social scientists have known this for a long time. But a National Bureau of Economic Research analy...

The 69 percent majority of Americans think of themselves as a "typical" American, according to a survey by the Public Religion Res...

Americans are "meh" about space exploration. The 45 percent plurality of the public is only moderately interested in outer space. ...

The living arrangements of adults have changed dramatically in nearly every age group over the past half century. A new set of tables availa...

American life expectancy is rising. The increase is due in part to better medications and improved medical interventions. It's also due ...

The 59 percent majority of Americans agrees that the United States should take stronger measures to keep undocumented immigrants out of the ...

Household income is on an upward trend. Median household income climbed to $55,192 in May 2015, according to Sentier Research. This was 0.7...

When smartphone users browse products and pricing online, 21 percent do so mainly on their smartphone and a much larger 62 percent mainly us...

The minority share of children under age 5 crossed an important threshold in 2014, according to the Census Bureau . For the first time, Asia...

Overall, 23 percent of employed Americans work at home on an average work day. The figure is about the same for men and women and for full- ...