Thirty-six percent of Americans aged 18 or older think their financial situation is improving, according to the 2014 General Social Survey. ...

How much money could the typical household access within 30 days to cover the cost of a financial shock? According to the Survey of American...

Women: The median age of women marrying for the first time inched up to 27.1 in 2015, a bit higher than the 27.0 of 2014 and a full seven y...

Most Americans now believe it is the responsibility of the federal government to ensure all Americans have health insurance, finds a Gallup ...

Hispanics live longer than non-Hispanic Whites, a life expectancy advantage known as the "Hispanic Paradox" because no one can exp...

The Affordable Care Act is changing time use in the United States, according to a National Bureau of Economic Research study. The expansion ...

In a worldwide survey of financial literacy, the United States scored only so-so for a major advanced economy. Fifty-seven percent of Americ...

Fully 89 percent of Americans with credit records fall into one of six debt types, according to an Urban Institute analysis of millions of c...

There were 5,479 hate crime incidents in 2014, according to the FBI. Most (5,462) involved a single bias—meaning the perpetrator targeted on...

When it comes to measuring obesity, the federal government doesn't fool around with self-reported heights and weights. That's becaus...

Americans still aren't moving much. Only 11.6 percent of U.S. residents aged 1 or older as of March 2015 had moved in the previous 12 mo...

There has been "a seismic shift in how people eat," according to a  New York Times  headline. Per capita consumption of soda, oran...

The size of the multiracial population depends on how questions about race are asked, reports Pew Research Center. In a test of how differen...

Income distribution of American households in 2014 (and % of households with two or more earners)... Less than $25,000: 24 percent (5%) $...

Television still dominates the news. A 45 percent plurality of Americans say they get most of their information about events in the news fro...

The death rate of middle-aged white Americans is rising, according to a study by Princeton economists Angus Deaton (winner of the 2015 Nobel...

Overall, 15.1 percent of men aged 65 or older work full-time, but the figure varies greatly by educational attainment... Men aged 65 or ol...

The political parties are divided by more than ideology. Religion also divides them... The single largest religious block among Democrats ...

What are the chances you will run out of money in retirement? An Employee Benefit Research Institute study determined that 12 percent of ol...

In a year's time, most households experience a financial shock, according to Pew Charitable Trusts Survey of American Family Finances. I...