Demo Memo
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Social Security is at Least Half of Income for Most 65+

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Most Americans aged 65 or older depend on Social Security for at least 50 percent of household income, according to an analysis of 2015 Curr...
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

City Population Growth, 2010 to 2016

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Between 2010 and 2016, the population of the nation's 757 largest cities (incorporated places with populations of 50,000 or more in 2016...
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Monday, May 29, 2017

39% of Children Have Parent(s) with Bachelor's Degree

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Among the nation's children, 39 percent have at least one parent in the household who has a bachelor's degree or more education. The...
Friday, May 26, 2017

Death of Loved One in Past 5 Years

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The 66 percent majority of adults experienced the death of a loved one in the past five years, according to a Kaiser survey. This figure inc...
Thursday, May 25, 2017

Stock Ownership Has Declined

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The stock market has been doing well lately, but fewer Americans are benefiting from it, reports Gallup. The percentage of adults who own st...
Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Median Household Income in April 2017 Finally Surpasses Median in January 2000

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Median household income in April 2017 climbed to $59,361, reports Sentier Research—a significant 1.0 percent higher than the March 2017 medi...
Tuesday, May 23, 2017

How Have Attitudes Changed among Boomers?

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The Baby-Boom generation is becoming more liberal as Boomers age into their seventies, according to a Demo Memo analysis of General Social S...
Monday, May 22, 2017

Vaping More Popular than Cigarettes, Marijuana

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In past 30 days, percent of high school students (grades 9 through 12) who have used... Cigarettes: 10.8% Marijuana: 21.7% Vaping: 24.1%...
Friday, May 19, 2017

How Many Have Retirement Accounts?

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How many households have an IRA and/or a defined-contribution retirement account? According to an Employee Benefit Research Institute analys...
Thursday, May 18, 2017

42% of Older Americans Own a Smartphone

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The percentage of Americans aged 65 or older who own a smartphone has more than doubled in three years—rising from just 18 percent in 2013 t...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

"Did Not Like Candidates" Nearly Doubled in 2016

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Among the 19 million registered voters aged 18 or older who did not vote in the 2016 election, the single biggest reason given for not showi...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

When Do Americans Eat?

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Nearly everyone (95 percent) engages in primary eating and drinking at least once a day, reports the USDA's Economic Research Service. A...
Monday, May 15, 2017

Is Your Mother Still Alive?

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Millions of Americans celebrated Mother's Day yesterday by honoring the memory of their mother rather than spending time with her. While...
Friday, May 12, 2017

Educational Attainment of American Workers

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Among the 161 million Americans with earnings in 2015, more than one-third had a bachelor's degree or more education... Educational at...
Thursday, May 11, 2017

Voting Rate of Non-Hispanic Whites Climbed in 2016

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The long-awaited and much anticipated report on voting in the 2016 presidential election was released by the Census Bureau yesterday. What d...
Wednesday, May 10, 2017

54% of Women Aged 25 to 29 Are Childless

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Nearly half of American women aged 15 to 44 were childless in 2016, up from about one-third in 1976. The dramatic rise in childlessness amon...
Tuesday, May 09, 2017

$45,800 Student Loan Balance for College Graduates

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Seventy-two percent of 2007-08 bachelor's degree recipients borrowed to pay for their college education, according to a National Center ...
Monday, May 08, 2017

How Many Had Working Mothers?

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When asked whether their mother ever worked for pay for as long as a year when they were growing up, 76 percent of Americans aged 18 or olde...
Thursday, May 04, 2017

Sexual Orientation by Generation, 2016

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Among adults aged 18 or older, 5 percent identify themselves as gay, lesbian, or bisexual. The percentage is as high as 12 percent among the...

51% Majority of Households Are Wireless-Only

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Most American households are now wireless-only, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. The 50-percent threshold was crossed...
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Cheryl Russell
Demographer Cheryl Russell was the editorial director of New Strategist Press and the editor-in-chief of American Demographics magazine. She has written numerous books about demographic trends. Ms. Russell is a professional demographer with a degree from Cornell University.
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