For many Millennials, the future may be dire indeed. A perfect storm of more debt, lower earnings, reduced homeownership, less wealth, and s...

Homeownership rate of householders aged 30 to 34, fourth quarter 2017: 47.1% Is the long slide over? The homeownership rate of househol...

It's not who you think it is. Healthy weight adults (with a BMI of 18.5 to 24.99), spent the most time eating on an average day in 2016,...

More cashiers than cops are murdered on the job, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics— 54 cashiers and 51 police officers were kille...

Yadda, yadda, yadda...you've heard it all before. Work longer, claim Social Security benefits later, and you will have more money in ret...

The average household spent $2,913 on entertainment in 2016, only 3 percent more than the $2,828 of 2006, after adjusting for inflation. But...

Is the news real or fake? Can you tell the difference? Only 50 percent of Americans think they can, according to a Gallup survey, down from ...

Medicaid expansion has greatly increased health care access among low-income Americans. For proof, look no further than a series of tables r...

Medical debt looms over millions. Fully 21 percent of Americans aged 18 or older had unpaid, past-due medical bills in 2016, according to a ...

"Worse than we thought" — those chilling words are in the title of a Brookings report on student loan debt and repayment. Analyzin...

Some of the nation's 3,142 counties lack certain essential businesses. These "business deserts" were tallied recently by the C...

Seven percent of U.S. households are "unbanked," meaning they have no bank or credit union account. Researchers at the Federal Res...

"All occupations are employing workers with more formal education," reports the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, and this is bad...

Among women aged 18 to 44, those in rural areas have had more children than their urban counterparts, according to the National Center for H...

Is racism receding in younger generations? That's one of the issues probed by PRRI and MTV in a nationally representative survey of 15-t...

Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities are projected to outnumber non-Hispanic Whites beginning in 2044 , according to Census Burea...

In the months before and after buying a house, average household spending rises by $3,700 as owners repair, renovate, and decorate their new...

Football is still America's favorite spectator sport, according to a Gallup survey. The 37 percent who say football is their favorite sp...

Among weather-related deaths, cold is a bigger killer than heat, flood, storm, or lightning, according to an analysis by the CDC. In the 200...

The 52.5 percent majority of the nation's households have cell phones and no landline phone, according to the latest National Center for...