Nearly three out of four adults have read a book in the previous 12 months, according to a Pew Research Center survey, and print remains the...

The average worker works 4.77 days a week. Sixty-eight percent of workers work Monday through Friday. But 19 percent of workers usually work...

Millennials account for a larger share of the labor force than any other generation. Among the nation's employed in 2018, a substantial ...

For a full decade, median household income struggled to return to the pre-Great Recession peak of $62,700 in 2007 (in 2018 dollars). It fina...

Robocalls are a big problem. Nearly 48 billion robocalls came into the U.S. in 2018, up from 29 billion just two years earlier, according to...

It depends. Some get a paycheck every week, while others get paid only once a month. No single pay schedule accounts for the majority of bus...

Average household spending peaked in 2006, just before the Great Recession. Spending then fell for years as Americans struggled with lost jo...

Why is average household spending on public transportation going through the roof? While overall household spending did not increase betwe...

A substantial 18 percent of adults personally know someone who goes by a gender-neutral pronoun, according to a Pew Research Center survey. ...

After reaching a record high last year, average household spending took a breather. The $61,224 average of 2018 was not statistically differ...

The good news: median household income is as high as it has ever been, at $63,179 in 2018. The bad news: after adjusting for inflation, medi...

Your chances of dying are much higher in some states than in others, according to a National Center for Health Statistics' report analyz...

Fox Mulder of The X-Files wanted to believe in UFOs, and he has lots of company. Fully 33 percent of Americans aged 18 or older think ...

Median household income climbed 0.7 percent between June and July 2019, after adjusting for inflation. The $65,084 July median was $438 grea...

Most Americans are late evening snackers, according to the USDA Food Surveys Research Group, which defines late evening as 8 pm to midnight....

During an average week, 21 percent of wage and salary workers take time off from their job—either paid or unpaid, according to the Bureau of...

The number of college students attending four-year schools has climbed 75 percent over the past four decades, rising from 5.9 million in 197...

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 ...