The average age of American women giving birth for the first time climbed to a record high of 26.3 in 2014—nearly four years greater than in...

Median household income in November 2015 stood at $56,746, according to Sentier Research—not significantly different from the October media...

Americans aren't moving as much as they once did, but those who move are having a big impact on some state populations. Twenty-one stat...

Among families with employed mothers who pay for child care, the average weekly cost has grown from $84 in 1985 to $143 in 2011, after adjus...

The Tchotchke Index ticked up in 2014, with average household spending on gift shop items, home decor trinkets, and yard sale finds rising t...

Between 2010 and 2015, the U.S. population as a whole grew 3.9 percent to 321 million. By state, growth ranged from a high of 12.2 percent ...

Even if the homeownership rate of 25-to-34-year-olds remains in the doldrums, the number of young-adult homeowners is likely to rise in the ...

Not everyone is happy with the redesigned Current Population Survey. An Employee Benefit Research Institute report questions some of the new...

Among parents with children under age 18, most say they're doing a "very good job" as a parent, according to a Pew Research Ce...

College graduates weather economic downturns better than those with less education. That's the assumption, but is it true? Only for Asia...

The median value of owned homes in the United States increased in 2014 for the first time since the Great Recession. The nation's homeow...

Almost half of American adults (49 percent) play video games (on a computer, TV, game console, cell phone, or tablet), according to a Pew Re...

The women of the baby-boom generation were the first to make paid work the norm for wives and mothers. Now that the oldest boomers are reach...

Only 37 percent of Americans think they are overweight, according to a Gallup survey. Not so, says the National Center for Health Statist...

It looks like a lot of boomers will miss out on the go-go years of retirement. That's because of a stunning increase in the labor force ...

The number of non-Hispanic Whites in the labor force is shrinking, according to the latest set of projections by the Bureau of Labor Statist...

Most Americans own multiple digital devices, according to a Pew survey. Fully 66 percent of adults own at least two devices (smartphone, tab...

Median household income in October 2015 stood at $56,671, according to Sentier Research—not significantly different from the September medi...

In an experimental research effort, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has examined household spending by generation based on data from the 2014...

Forty-seven percent of Americans aged 18 or older live in a wireless-only household—meaning the household has cell phones but no landline. A...