A new measure of lifetime earnings by educational attainment finds the earnings gap between college and high school graduates to be smaller ...

Percentage of each generation that identifies with the generation's name... Millennials: 40% Generation X: 58% Baby Boomers: 79% S...

The average household spent $53,495 in 2014—3 percent more than in 2013, after adjusting for inflation. This is good news and it may signal ...

Chances are, your heart is older than you are. That's what the CDC discovered when it estimated the "heart age" of a represent...

Remember when neighborhoods were full of children? This is why they aren't anymore: the average number of children (people under age 18)...

The Census Bureau thinks long and hard before tinkering with the all-important Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Suppleme...

On an average day, only 10 percent of Americans walk or bicycle as transportation (rather than exercise)—meaning they walk or bicycle to get...

The average American household spends differently than its counterpart did in the 1940s, according to an analysis in the Monthly Labor Revie...

More than 1.6 million American workers are CEOs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Not surprisingly, CEOs rank among the oldest w...

The five metropolitan areas with the lowest rate of commuting to work by automobile and their second most common mode of commute... 1. New...

Only 39 percent of American workers say it is somewhat or very likely they will try to find a new job with another employer within the next ...

Only 1.8 percent of Americans aged 18 or older admit to driving while drunk in the past 30 days, according to the CDC. Here is the percentag...

Thirty-seven percent of American workers have ever telecommuted, according to a Gallup survey. Telecommuting is defined as working from home...

The percentage of American workers who commute by automobile is on the decline, peaking at 87.9 percent in 2000 and falling to 85.8 percent ...

Injury is a major cause of death in the United States. Unintentional injuries (accidents) are the 4th leading cause of death, according to t...

Percent of people aged 18 or older who say they have no religious preference, 1972 to 2014... 2014: 21% 2010: 18% 2000: 14% 1990:   8% ...

Americans are pretty evenly split on whether it is more important to protect gun rights or control gun ownership, according to a Pew survey—...

Has household spending on transportation peaked? It looks that way. The average household devoted 17.5 percent of its budget to transportati...

When it comes to building wealth, timing is everything. Gen Xers are learning this the hard way, according to an analysis of American debt b...

"The recent growth of single-family rentals is unprecedented," reports the Joint Center for Housing Studies in its report,  The St...