Among Americans aged 18 to 64, a substantial 18 percent visited an emergency room one or more times in 2014, according to a report by the Na...

Among the hundreds of detailed occupations examined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, these are the 10 in which the race and Hispanic origi...

Today's older Americans have more debt than their predecessors, according to a Liberty Street Economics analysis. Among borrowers aged 5...

The nation's homeownership rate fell to 63.7 percent in 2015, down from the peak of 69.0 percent in 2004—a 5.3 percentage point decline....

Nearly one in four children under age 18 in the United States has at least one immigrant parent, according to an Urban Institute study. The ...

Percentage of Americans who report getting an average of 7 or more hours of sleep in a 24-hour period, according to the CDC's Behavorial...

Canned goods were sophisticated, overweight was a sign of good health, there was no such thing as standard time, and phonographs were the ...

Among the hundreds of detailed occupations examined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, these are the 10 with the largest percentage of Hispa...

One in three college freshmen identifies him or herself as "far left" or "liberal," according to The American Freshmen: ...

Among the hundreds of detailed occupations examined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, these are the 10 with the largest percentage of Black...

You might have seen this headline: " Disparity in Life Spans of the Rich and the Poor Is Growing " in the New York Times . Once ag...

"Which of the following do Americans need to be considered part of the middle class?" Secure job: 89% Ability to save money: 86...

A surprisingly large percentage of Americans engage in informal paid work, according to the Survey of Informal Work Participation—and the pe...

In less than 24 months, the percentage of working-age adults without health insurance has plummeted. It's not often social scientists ge...

Among the hundreds of detailed occupations examined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, these are the 10 with the largest percentage of Asian...

On an average day, 47 percent of Americans aged 20 or older eat a sandwich, according to the USDA's Food Surveys Research Group—52 perce...

Football is by far America's favorite sport, according to a survey by the Public Religion Research Institute (go figure). Fully 38 perce...

Among the hundreds of detailed occupations examined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, these are the 10 with the largest percentage of non-H...

Long before Flint Michigan's water problems became a national news story, a substantial 9 million American households identified their p...

Could older Americans work longer if they had to? The answer is yes, according to a National Bureau of Economic Research study of the work c...