Younger adults are being hit especially hard by Covid-19 shutdowns, reports Pew Research Center. Workers under age 45 account for 56 percent...

The U.S. population grew by just 0.48 percent in the year ending July 1, 2019. This is the slowest annual rate of growth in 100 years. Growt...

Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis are working furiously to measure the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. In...

Now that we're spending a lot more time at home, we're sure to be reading more books. Right? Maybe not. While the overall percentage...

We know a recession is coming. It's likely to be severe. But the severity will vary by geographic area, according to a Brookings analysi...

Rising concerns about coronavirus are being captured by survey researchers while they are in the field. According to Pew Research Center sur...

If the coronavirus caused you to miss work for at least two weeks, would you continue to get paid? Only 36 percent of employed Americans ans...

Way back in 2018, before The Age of Social Distancing, the threat of a pandemic barely registered in the public's mind. Pandemic ranked ...

Among the 48 million women who work full-time, year-round, 1.4 million had median earnings of $100,000 or more, according to the Census Bure...

Was Trump chosen by God to be the president? Yes, it's a strange question, but former energy secretary Rick Perry and religious leader F...

The homeownership rate reached an all-time high in 2004, climbing to 69.0 percent. It is still well below that level 15 years later. The hom...

The 2019 homeownership rate in the United States was 2.2 percentage points below the rate in 1999, according to the Census Bureau. The Black...

Stir crazy may be the best way to describe the American public over the next few weeks. We are accustomed to being out and about. Staying at...

Did you pay too much for your house? If it's located in a flood plain, chances are you did, according to a National Bureau of Economic R...

As the coronavirus threatens to keep many Americans at home, now is the time to review paid sick leave in the United States. While 76 percen...

If you ask the public which it prefers—life in the suburbs/country or life in the city—most prefer the suburban/country lifestyle, according...

The good news is that American life expectancy is projected to rise, according to the Census Bureau. The bad news is that our life expectanc...

Obesity continues to spread. Among Americans aged 20 or older, 42.4 percent are obese according to the 2017–18 National Health and Nutrition...

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...