Workers are cautiously optimistic as Labor Day approaches. Nearly one in four says it would be easy "to find a job with another employe...

Millions of American households have zero or even negative net worth, meaning the amount of money they owe equals or exceeds their assets. T...

The Department of Homeland Security's Yearbook of Immigration Statistics is chock full of interesting numbers. Table 1 of the Yearbook ...

Only one-third of internet users participate in the "sharing economy," according to the National Telecommunications and Informatio...

Who trusts Fox News? Who trusts CNN? A recent Gallup survey examined how much Americans trust various news sources, finding local news to be...

TGIF! You know the feeling. You know it because you've lived it over and over again—about 1,400 times by the time you're in your fif...

Do Americans underestimate their risk of being affected by a flood or other natural disaster? Yes, according to results of the American Hous...

The time use of young adults has changed a lot due to the baby bust. A smaller share of people aged 20 to 34 spent time caring for household...

Most Americans are not news junkies. Among adults aged 18 or older, only about one in three say they follow national or local news "ver...

Non-Hispanic Whites will account for 47 percent of the nation's public school students this fall, according to the National Center for E...

"Do you expect the U.S. to fight in another world war in the next 10 years?" The General Social Survey has been asking this questi...

Nearly one-third of Americans aged 18 or older (32 percent) say they can speak a language other than English, according to the 2018 General ...

Fewer men of prime working age are in the labor force. Among men aged 25 to 54, the labor force participation rate fell from 96 percent in 1...

The expected duration of a first marriage is eight years shorter than it used to be, according to a study by sociologist Arun S. Hendi of Pr...

Beer is still the alcoholic beverage of choice for the largest share of drinking Americans (38 percent), but wine (30 percent) and liquor (2...

A surprisingly large 14 percent of Americans use CBD products, according to a Gallup survey. Young adults are most likely to use them... P...

How far do Americans live from the nearest supermarket? Using a combination of store and population data, the USDA's Economic Research S...

It's not only the number of candles on a birthday cake that separate younger from older Americans. A survey by Pew Research Center finds...

Going to college was not the norm for the Baby-Boom generation. Among high school graduates born from 1960 through 1964, the youngest Boomer...

Thirty-five percent of Americans have a gun in their home, according to the 2018 General Social Survey. Another 3 percent refused to say whe...