A new record was set in 2019. Deaths exceeded births in five states. Never before had so many states experienced negative natural increase, ...

One in five Americans have not visited a doctor or a dentist in the past year, according to the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS). In ...

College enrollment in the United States is on the decline. The number of undergraduates in the nation's colleges reached an all-time hig...

How much conflict is there between people who live in cities and people who live in rural areas? When Pew Research Center asked this questio...

The number of Americans aged 3 or older enrolled in school fell from 76 million in 2019 to 73 million in 2020—a decline of 2.9 million. Behi...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects diverging trends for the American labor force.  On the one hand, the labor force participation rate ...

Fully 65 percent of Americans aged 18 or older are worried about climate change, according to a Gallup survey. Forty-three percent are worri...

Every year Chapman University surveys the American public about its fears, asking a representative sample of the population how afraid it is...

Every year Chapman University surveys the American public, probing our greatest fears. Students at the university analyze the findings and d...

The battle lines are drawn as parents face off across the country over Covid mitigation measures. Schools are in the crosshairs. Almost half...

Want to lower your chances of dying? Get married. That's one interpretation of a National Center for Health Statistics' analysis of ...

Would you rather live an exciting life or a calm life? That's the question Gallup asked representative samples of the public in 116 coun...

One way to examine incomes in the United States is to divide up the nation's 130 million households into five groups (or quintiles) of e...

How does the American public react to the changing recommendations of public health officials as they attempt to mitigate the coronavirus pa...

One-fifth of households in the United States are headed by retirees, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2020 Consumer Expendit...

The 54 percent majority of Americans had employment-based health insurance in 2020, according to the Census Bureau's Current Population ...

More bad news for rural America. The death rate in rural areas is higher than the rate in urban areas and the gap is growing, according to a...

The 73 percent majority of Americans have received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine, according to a Pew Research Center survey fielded A...

A substantial percentage of the nation's school children have experienced stressful life events, according to an analysis by the Nationa...

According to the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey, men who worked full-time, year-round in 2020 earned a median of $63,678—half...