Gig workers have become a controversial symbol of the gaping holes in the American safety net. Behind the outrage over gig work is our emplo...

Homeownership rate of householders aged 35 to 39, third quarter 2019: 56.5% The homeownership rate of the  35-to-39 age group  was stab...

Overall, 56 percent of women aged 18 or older would prefer to have a job outside the home rather than stay at home and take care of house an...

How many of the Democratic presidential candidates are baby boomers? Not as many as you think, unless you're a reporter who assumes anyo...

Are parents doing too much for their young adult children? Most Americans think so. According to a Pew Research Center survey, the 55 percen...

Fractured Nation is the title of the latest report on American values released by PRRI (the Public Religion Research Institute). The title ...

For the first time, cash has fallen to second place as a payment instrument. According to the Diary of Consumer Payment Choice, cash was use...

Maybe there is a silver lining to all the controversy surrounding the Trump administration's failed attempt to add a citizenship questio...

The white working class is declining not only as a share of the total U.S. population but also in absolute numbers, according to a Federal R...

Why do some workers enjoy rising incomes over their career while other workers can't seem to make any gains? That question was posed by ...

Nationally, the average household devotes 16 percent of its expenditures to transportation (vehicle purchases, finance charges, insurance, r...

Married people have strikingly lower death rate than the never-married, divorced, or widowed, according to a report by the National Center f...

Americans owe nearly $1.5 trillion in student loan debt, more than they owe for auto loans or credit card debt. But what is the maximum amou...

The median age of the labor force is projected to rise by another 0.6 years between now and 2028—from 41.9 in 2018 to 42.5 in 2028, accordin...

There were 65,000 violent deaths in the United States in 2016, according to the CDC. The 62 percent majority were suicides, followed by homi...

Admit it. It was a disappointment when the Current Population Survey's 2018 median household income estimate, released by the Census Bur...

Many workers do not know their work schedule much in advance, according to the American Time Use Survey, making it difficult to organize chi...

Remember when computers and the internet were going to revolutionize the world of work? The ability to work remotely would solve all sorts o...

Since 2010, the number of households headed by people aged 65 to 74 has expanded by 50 percent, according to the Census Bureau's Current...

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...