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Thursday, May 31, 2018

Decline in Median Earnings of Female College Graduates

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The earnings of 25-to-34-year-olds who work full-time are lower today than they were in 2000 in almost every educational attainment group, a...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Decline in Median Earnings of Male College Graduates

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The earnings of 25-to-34-year-olds who work full-time are lower today than they were in 2000 in almost every educational attainment group, a...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

The Summer After Kindergarten

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How do children spend their summers? Do they play outside, hang out with Grandma, attend a summer camp, visit a zoo? The National Center for...
Friday, May 25, 2018

Median Household Income Rises in April 2018

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More good news from Sentier Research . Median household income in April 2018 climbed to $61,483—higher than in any month since January 2000,...
Thursday, May 24, 2018

City Population Growth, 2010 to 2017

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Between 2010 and 2017, the population of the nation's 765 largest cities (incorporated places with populations of 50,000 or more in 2017...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018

What If Every State Expanded Medicaid?

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The percentage of Americans who do not have health insurance has plummeted over the past few years, thanks to the Affordable Care Act. When ...
Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Less Poverty among Widows

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Widows aren't as poor as they used to be. The poverty rate of widows fell from 20 to 13 percent between 1994 and 2014, according to the ...
Monday, May 21, 2018

No State Immune from Baby Bust. Well, maybe one...

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To the surprise of many, the baby bust is deepening. The number of births fell by 92,000 between 2016 and 2017–from 3.946 million to 3.853 ...
Friday, May 18, 2018

Who Likes to Drive?

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One-third of Americans enjoy driving "a great deal," according to a Gallup survey. Another 44 percent enjoy it moderately. That ma...
Thursday, May 17, 2018

Births in 2017 at Lowest Level in 30 Years

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Despite the economic recovery, the baby bust continues. Only 3,853,472 babies were born in the U.S. in 2017—the lowest number since 1987, ac...
Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Are Those Born in the 1980s a "Lost Generation"?

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Born in the 1980s? Then you belong to what could be a "lost generation." This is not a tabloid headline, but the considered opinio...
Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Big Increase in Death by Falling

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Older Americans are increasingly likely to die from a fall, the CDC reports. The annual number of people aged 65 or older who die because of...
Monday, May 14, 2018

Expected Age of Retirement Now 66

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On average, workers today expect to retire at an average age of 66—substantially higher than the expected retirement age of 60 in the mid-19...
Friday, May 11, 2018

Going to the Movies, by Generation

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Millennials go to the movies more frequently than Boomers or Gen Xers, according to an AARP survey. The 56 percent majority of Millennials s...
Thursday, May 10, 2018

The Most Successful Entrepreneurs Are...

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Does age predict entrepreneurial success? Yes, say many Americans, and they would be right. But they would be wrong about the age that predi...
Wednesday, May 09, 2018

Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation

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If your customers are people who hunt, fish, or watch birds and other wildlife, you're in luck. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service provi...
Tuesday, May 08, 2018

College Grads Control 74 Percent of Household Wealth

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More than one-third of households in the U.S. (34 percent) are headed by someone with a bachelor's degree or more education. A study by ...
Monday, May 07, 2018

Median Household Income Now Tops $61,000

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It's back! After a hiatus of nearly one year, Sentier Research is restarting its monthly household income estimate series. The latest es...
Friday, May 04, 2018

Single Parents Not Necessarily Going it Alone

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Many single parents are living with a partner, reports Pew Research Center in an analysis of the Census Bureau's 2017 Current Population...
Thursday, May 03, 2018

Winners and Losers in the Grocery Store, 2006 to 2016

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When Americans shopped for groceries a decade ago, beef was number-one on the shopping list—the item on which the average household spent th...
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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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