Seafood is good for you because of the omega-3 fatty acids it contains. That's why the federal government recommends eating at least two...

Another month, another gain. Median household income in August 2018 climbed to $62,685, reports Sentier Research. This is the highest median...

How has health insurance coverage changed with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act? Surprisingly, it hasn't changed all that m...

Among Americans aged 25 or older, women are better educated than men, a threshold first crossed in 2015. According to the 2018 Current Popul...

Americans really are cutting the cord. Results of the 2017 Consumer Expenditure Survey show a substantial drop in spending on cable and sate...

As Americans put on weight, diabetes is on the rise. The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey measures the prevalence of diabete...

For the first time in a long time, home is the most likely place of death. Among people who died in 2016, the 30.5 percent plurality died at...

No price is too high to pay for our pets, apparently. The average American household spent $710 on pets in 2017, according to the Consumer E...

The number of households in the United States grew by 1.4 million between 2017 and 2018, according to the Census Bureau's Current Popula...

Average household spending reached a record high of $60,060 in 2017—finally surpassing by 2.1 percent the previous record set in 2006, after...

Soft drinks account for a large share of youth beverage consumption, according to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The ...

Forty percent of Americans aged 20 or older are obese, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. The obesity rate varies by ra...

Is there something to worry about here? Median household income grew 1.8 percent between 2016 and 2017, after adjusting for inflation. This ...

Median household income climbed to $61,372 in 2017, according to the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey. This is 1.8 percent high...

Average household spending reached a new record high in 2017, finally surpassing the previous high set in 2006. American households spent an...

How many of the nation's houses have solar panels? The 2017 American Housing Survey has the answer. Overall, 3.1 million occupied housin...

Yesterday the Census Bureau released its corrected 2017-vintage population projections. The bureau had yanked the 2017 projections from its ...

If you're middle class in in the United States, then your household income is between $37,000 and $147,000 for a household of three peop...

Something is not right with this picture. Since the early 1960s, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, the percentage of A...

Twenty-five percent of Americans are either foreign-born (13.5 percent) or the child of at least one foreign-born parent (11.9 percent), acc...