First, the good news. The median net worth of Black households climbed 33 percent between 2016 and 2019, after adjusting for inflation. This...

How wealthy is the average American household? We find out only every three years, which is a very long wait. Well, the wait is over but the...

The mental health of Americans has taken a beating during the coronavirus pandemic. But mental health wasn't all that great in 2019, eit...

How long have you worked for your current employer? Among all wage and salary workers aged 16 or older, median tenure was 4.1 years as of Ja...

There's more to fear than coronavirus. There's bankruptcy to fear as well, bankruptcy caused by mounting medical bills for treating ...

Millions of Americans are missing the arts. It has been more than six months since the public has been free to attend art festivals, live mu...

The nation's violent crime rate has plummeted over the decades—falling by more than 50 percent since the early 1990s, according to FBI d...

Water accounts for just over half of what American adults drink on an average day (not counting alcoholic beverages). Water is 51.2 percent ...

Every year demographers anxiously await the Census Bureau's release of income statistics from the Current Population Survey. This year, ...

Did your stash of cash grow as the coronavirus pandemic gained strength in the spring of 2020? If you say yes, you're not alone. America...

"It is a lot more difficult to be a Black person in this country than it is to be a White person." Agree or disagree? Overall, ju...

Average household spending surpassed $63,000 in 2019—but just barely. The $63,036 spent by the average household in 2019 was 1.1 percent gre...

The use of antidepressant medications is widespread in the United States, with 13.8 percent of adults taking antidepressants in the past 30 ...

This is a record high. Young adults (aged 18 to 29) are now more likely to live with their parents than ever measured before—even during the...

The workforce is getting older as the Baby-Boom generation ages. Workers aged 55 or older will account for one in four workers by 2029, acco...

Among the ten fastest-growing occupations in the decade ahead, none is projected to grow faster than wind turbine service technician. The Bu...

The nation's households are increasingly top heavy. Between 2010 and 2019, the number of households headed by people aged 55 or older gr...

More Americans are wearing masks "all or most of the time" when in stores or other businesses, according to a Pew Research Center ...

The summer of protests has moved the needle, but not for everyone. The percentage of Americans who say recent police killings of Black men a...

In many ways, high school seniors are better behaved than they used to be. The results of the 2019 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (...