Every few years the government surveys the energy use of a representative sample of American households. Among the questions included in the...

Right-to-carry leads to an increase in violent crime, according to a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper. A state-level analy...

Homeownership rate of householders aged 30 to 34, second quarter 2017: 45.2% The homeownership rate of households headed by people aged...

College graduates are a big reason for the rising rate of labor force participation among people aged 65 or older, according to an Urban Ins...

Homicide is one of the leading causes of death for women under age 45, reports the CDC. What are the characteristics of women who become hom...

Nearly half of Americans aged 18 or older have tried marijuana, according to a 2017 Gallup survey. The 45 percent who have ever tried mariju...

Beer is America's number-one alcoholic beverage, according to Gallup's annual Consumption Habits poll. But liquor is surging. When G...

The majority of Americans get most of their information about science and technology from the internet (56 percent), according to the 2016 G...

The 52 percent majority of Americans agree with the statement, "Science makes our way of life change too fast," according to the ...

Nearly half of Americans (47%) took at least one prescription drug in the past 30 days, according to the 2011–14 National Health and Nutriti...

Twenty-three percent of high school sophomores of 2002 were living with their parents ten years later in 2012, according to the Education Lo...

First-class mail volume has  dropped  since its 2001 peak, but it's not all bad news for USPS. In contrast to the first-class mail decli...

How much would essential health benefits cost if they were no longer required, as they currently are under the Affordable Care Act, and only...

First-class mail is in a steep decline, not surprisingly. The number of pieces of first class mail handled by the U.S. Postal Service peaked...

Fewer Americans are reading on an average day, according to the American Time Use Survey. In every age group, a shrinking share is reading f...

In the difficult three-year period between 2009 and 2012, when the United States was struggling to recover from the Great Recession, nearly ...

Young men are working fewer hours than they once did, and a new study suggests a novel reason for the decline—better video games. Between ...

The ongoing baby bust is occurring in 46 states. Nationally, the number of births fell 8.7 percent between 2007 (the year when births peake...

One-third of the high school sophomores of 2002 were parents ten years later in 2012, according to the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002....

Adults under age 45 are watching less TV on an average day than they did a decade ago, while those aged 45 or older are watching more. Overa...