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The year 2020 is coming to a close. Although this terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year is almost over, it will live in infamy as histo...

There has been a lot of talk about the numbers of people who have moved because of the coronavirus pandemic. According to a Pew Research Cen...

Only 19 percent of Americans answer their cellphone to see who it is when called by an unknown number, according to a Pew Research Center su...

Just ahead of the holiday festivities, the National Center for Health Statistics has issued a report on trends in obesity by age. Do you thi...

Recent trends in the information publishing industry are not pretty—at least for workers in traditional publishing establishments. In the pa...

The number of households in the United States fell in 2020 for the first time in the history of the Census Bureau's Current Population S...

Many, many more Americans are angry about people not wearing a mask in public than are upset by stores requiring customers to wear masks, ac...

The nation's small businesses are feeling the effects of the surge in coronavirus coupled with the onset of winter weather. More than on...

This year's Black Friday is being called Bleak Friday  by some retail analysts, with brick and mortar stores relatively empty and holida...

Nearly half of middle-aged and older Americans believe something that isn't true. No, this story isn't about QAnon. It's about l...

In the state of Idaho, jobs in the leisure and hospitality industry inched up by 0.5 percent between October 2019 and October 2020. That...

On an average day, 70 percent of children and 61 percent of adults eat sweets, according to the USDA's Food Surveys Research Group. Noti...

The 56 percent majority of all American voters now feel "hopeful" about the state of the United States, according to a Pew Researc...

The 55 percent majority of Americans support the death penalty for a person convicted of murder, according to a recent Gallup Survey. This i...

Have you cancelled your traditional Thanksgiving travel plans because of coronavirus? If so, you belong to the supermajority of Americans wh...

American households owed a median of $64,800 in 2019, according to the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances. This means half of...

Almost all American households own something of value. Fully 99.6 percent of households owned one or more of the assets measured by the Fede...

Over the years, happiness studies have revealed a "paradox of well-being"—the finding that life satisfaction increases with advanc...

If you ask the American public about crime in the United States, you almost always get the same answer. Crime is increasing. The trouble is,...