The average household spent $55,978 in 2015, according to the Consumer Expenditure Survey, a substantial 4.5 percent more than in 2014 after...

Americans are less likely to read on an average day than they were 10 years ago, according to a Demo Memo analysis of the American Time Use ...

That's right. Fruit and vegetable consumption fell by 27 pounds per capita during the past decade—from 299 pounds per person in 2003 to ...

The non-Hispanic White population in the United States grew by just 0.3 percent between 2010 and 2015, according to Census Bureau population...

Getting from here to there is a growing problem for many as they age. Ride-sharing services such as Uber and Lyft may solve this problem in ...

Baby-Boom men aren't opting for early retirement like their fathers did. Early retirement peaked in 1995, when the labor force participa...

Hispanics are the least educated population segment in the United States. More than one-third of Hispanics aged 25 or older (35 percent) do ...

Asians are the mostly highly educated population segment in the United States. More than half of Asians aged 25 or older (52 percent) have a...

More than 1 in 10 high school students identifies as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or "not sure," according to a government survey. The ...

As internet use has become the norm over the years, the gap in internet use between urban and rural residents has remained the same, accordi...

The number of Americans employed in information technology has increased 10-fold in the past four-plus decades, according to a Census Bureau...

What is the single most popular type of restaurant in the United States? Fast-food restaurants serving hamburgers, of course. There are 53,0...

How do you determine the cardiovascular health of Americans by occupation? You measure seven different cardiovascular health metrics (not sm...

The U.S. population grew by 2.5 million between July 1, 2014 and July 1, 2015, according to the Census Bureau. International migration accou...

How Americans go online is changing. Those changes are being documented by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration as...

You can't blame Americans' growing weight on an increase in height because we aren't getting any taller. The average woman aged ...

The average woman weighed 168.5 pounds in 2011-14, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, five-plus pounds more than the 16...

Only 11 percent of adults aged 65 or older have private, long-term care insurance, according to an Urban Institute analysis of Health and Re...

One in four teenagers aged 12 to 18 saw hate-related graffiti at school in 2013, according to a survey by the National Center for Education ...

Americans get their food from a wide variety of places, according to the USDA's Economic Research Service. During an average week, most ...