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Friday, December 29, 2017

Metros with the Highest Rates of Homeownership, 2016

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Among the nation's 75 largest metropolitan areas, these are the 10 with the highest rates of homeownership in 2016, according to the Cen...
Thursday, December 28, 2017

How Important Are Foreign-Born Workers to IT?

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Foreign-born workers are a large share of the information technology (IT) labor force in the United States. The Bureau of Labor Statistics e...
Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Residents of Rural Areas Can Be Hard to Count

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The rural population has been shrinking since 2010. This makes it all the more important that the 2020 census counts every rural resident. A...
Tuesday, December 26, 2017

The Brewery Explosion

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Pity the thirsty masses of 2006. Back then, there were only 398 breweries in the entire United States. Today, there are 2,843, according to ...
Monday, December 25, 2017

Average Household Spends $1,521 on Gifts for Others

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Americans are spending less on gifts for people in other households than they once did. The $1,521 spent by the average household on gifts f...
Friday, December 22, 2017

Life Expectancy Declines, Again

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Big, big news: Life expectancy at birth fell for the second year in a row in 2016, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. ...
Thursday, December 21, 2017

7 of the 10 Fastest-Growing States Are in the West

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Seven of the 10 fastest-growing states between 2016 and 2017 were in the West, according to the Census Bureau's population estimates. Th...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Among Men, Higher Earnings = Wedding Bells

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The more men earn, the more likely they're married, according to Census Bureau data. The percentage of all men who are currently married...
Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Poor Mental Health Is Common among Young Adults

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On how many days in the past month has your mental health not been good? When asked that question, the 55 percent majority of the public ans...
Monday, December 18, 2017

90% of Americans Are High School Graduates

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The percentage of Americans aged 25 or older who have completed high school reached an all-time high of 90 percent in 2017, reports the Cens...
Friday, December 15, 2017

Alexa, Listen to Me

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Despite this being early days for digital voice assistants, they are already remarkably popular. Nearly half of Americans have used them, ac...
Thursday, December 14, 2017

New Generation Table Reveals Spending Patterns

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The World War II generation gets smaller by the day. This generation, defined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as people born in 1927 or ea...
Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Work Life Expectancy at Age 50

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How many years of work life remain for men and women at age 50? That depends on their educational attainment, according to a study published...
Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Why Do the Educated Live Longer?

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The better educated you are, the longer you are likely to live. What are the reasons for the educational disparity in mortality? A study pub...
Monday, December 11, 2017

How Many Move after They Retire?

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What percentage of older Americans move after they retire? According to a Transamerica survey, a substantial 39 percent moved. The single bi...
Friday, December 08, 2017

Who Is Manly, Who Is Not?

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Nearly one-third of American men and women regard themselves as "very masculine" or "very feminine," according to a Pew ...
Thursday, December 07, 2017

Divided Over the National Anthem

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Should professional athletes be required to stand during the national anthem? Americans are divided on the issue, according to PRRI's 20...
Wednesday, December 06, 2017

Years of Healthy Grandparenthood Are Expanding

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With Millennials delaying marriage and childbearing longer than any previous generation, many wannabe grandparents are experiencing FOMO—fea...
Tuesday, December 05, 2017

How Siblings Affect Time Use

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Nearly 80 percent of children under age 18 live with siblings, according to the Census Bureau. But no one has examined how the presence of s...
Monday, December 04, 2017

Young People Do Not Share Our Values!

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That's the opinion of the great majority of Americans aged 18 or older, according to a PRRI survey. When asked whether they agree or dis...
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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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