Public health officials are becoming increasingly concerned about the looming need for caregiving as the baby-boom generation ages into infi...

When it comes to identifying where Americans live, there are two different perspectives. One perspective is delineated by the federal govern...

How much of your day revolves around food? If you're an average American, then it's a lot. Food-related activities rank fourth in th...

Most Americans believe, incorrectly, that the 2020 census will ask about citizenship, according to a Pew Research Center survey. Whether thi...

The white working class is shrinking, according to an analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The question is why. The St. Louis ...

On a scale of 1 to 5, how stressed out do you feel? Here's how a nationally representative sample of Americans answered that question, a...

Over the past century, James has been the number-one most popular boy's name, according to the Social Security Administration. Between 1...

Winter is the season everyone loves to hate. Well, nearly everyone. According to a 2019 HuffPost/YouGov survey, 51 percent of Americans aged...

Over the past two decades, the labor force has become much more educated. In 2000, workers with no more than a high school diploma greatly o...

The income and wealth of Millennials is lagging behind that of older generations at the same age, according to a study by the Federal Reserv...

The older workforce is large and getting larger. Workers aged 55 or older accounted for 24 percent of the nation's employed in 2019. Thi...

Median household income fell between November and December 2019, after adjusting for inflation. The $65,666 December median was 0.8 percent ...

Do older Americans stay in one home long enough to turn their home equity into an income stream, boosting their standard of living in retire...

Many midlife adults have it tough. Some are the parents of adult children who are not yet financially independent. Others have aging parents...

Wives are still more likely than husbands to do the laundry, prepare meals, and clean the house, according to a Gallup survey. When asked ...

Life expectancy in the United States was no higher in 2018 than it was in 2010, which makes the 2010s (so far) the first decade in modern hi...

Homeownership rate of householders aged 35 to 39, fourth quarter 2019: 57.8% Ho-hum is the word that best describes the 4th quarter hom...

The percentage of young adult households with student loan debt has tripled over the past few decades, according to a Federal Reserve Bank o...

Foster care may be the best solution for a bad situation, but children who experience foster care face a lifetime of struggle, according to ...

Non-Hispanic whites are a minority of the nation's public school students, accounting for 48.9 percent of elementary and secondary stude...