More than one-third of Americans aged 18 or older spend a social evening with relatives at least once a week, and 75 percent socialize with ...

CNBC drew the scorn of Twitter last week when it published The Budget Breakdown of a 25-year-old Who Makes $100,000 a Year and is Excellent ...

The average man weighs 198 pounds. These figures come from the the federal government's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey...

The most common type of contraceptive used by American women is sterilization, according to the federal government's 2015–17 National Su...

The population of the District of Columbia grew 16 percent between 2010 and 2018, according to the Census Bureau's latest state populati...

Young adults stay in school longer than they once did. Most are in school until age 22, according to the Census Bureau's 2017 school enr...

It's a treasure hunt when the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the Consumer Expenditure Survey each year. Reporters scour the figures...

Panhandlers have a problem. Increasing numbers of Americans don't have any cash to give them. Only 53 percent of  the public always carr...

Many students who enroll at a four-year college fail to earn their bachelor's degree, according to the latest figures from the National ...

More Americans are attending arts events, according to a survey by the National Endowment for the Arts. The NEA's 2017 Survey of Public ...

With help wanted signs multiplying across the nation, college enrollment continues to decline. Only 18.4 million students were enrolled in c...

Boomers spend more than any other generation on women's clothes, according to a Demo Memo analysis of the 2017 Consumer Expenditure Surv...

Only 27 percent of Americans aged 18 or older say they have a pre-existing condition, according to a Gallup poll. Among people aged 65 or ol...

Average student debt upon graduation grew to $28,650 in 2017, according to the Institute for College Access and Success. This is the debt ow...

The retirement readiness of Americans took a hit from the Great Recession and has yet to recover, according to study by the Center for Retir...

The unauthorized immigrant population in the United States is shrinking, according to a Pew Research Center report. In 2016, there were 10.7...

The nation's mobility rate hit an all-time low of 10.1 percent in 2017–18, primarily because fewer renters are moving. The mobility rate...

Median household income in October 2018 stood at $63,220, reports Sentier Research, unchanged from September after adjusting for inflation. ...

Life expectancy at birth fell to 78.6 years in 2017, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, down from 78.7 years in 2016. L...

When the 116th Congress takes over in January 2019, the Baby-Boom generation will account for a shrinking majority of representatives, accor...