This is something to behold. Rarely do attitudes change so dramatically in just a few decades. Between 1990 and 2021, the share of Americans...

Could there be bigger differences of opinion about the most important issues facing the nation than the ones between Democrats and Republica...

To think for oneself is the most important thing children should learn to prepare them for life, according to the 2021 General Social Survey...

Here's something for all the doomscrollers out there: 54,170. That's the number of violent deaths in the United States in 2018 (the ...

State of residence increasingly determines physical and economic wellbeing. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the latest statistics on he...

The average age at which women have their first birth climbed to a record high of 27.1 years in 2020, according to the National Center for H...

By now you've probably heard the news: happiness is on the wane, thanks to the pandemic. Only 19 percent of Americans reported being ...

Homeownership rate of householders aged 30 to 34, fourth quarter 2021: 48.6% Homeownership rates in the final quarter of 2021 were little ch...

How is daily time use different for today's younger adults versus those a generation ago? That is the question posed by Bureau of Labor ...

The 51 percent majority of the nation's small businesses are pessimistic about when, if ever, their operations will recover from the cor...

It should be over by now, right? Unfortunately, we're still in the thick of the coronavirus pandemic. The first batch of 2022 results fr...

How common is it for young people to be pulled into the criminal justice system by the time they are adults? This is the question posed by a...

The consumer price index climbed 7.0 percent in 2021, the largest annual increase since 1981, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. But fo...

The pandemic has been good to Apple. As the coronavirus swept through the country in the early months of 2020, Apple's market cap climbe...

Two different surveys of book reading trends show conflicting results. Recently, both Pew Research Center and Gallup asked Americans aged 18...

Was it an insurrection, a protest, or an unfortunate event? That's the question asked by NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll in a recent survey...

The final mortality statistics for 2020 were recently released by the National Center for Health Statistics. They document what we already k...

When it comes to Covid, suspicious and misinformed are words that describe millions of Americans—especially those who live in rural areas. R...

Nearly one in five Americans aged 18 or older (19 percent) say they have been diagnosed with Covid-19, according to the Census Bureau's ...

The nation's population has never grown more slowly. Between July 1, 2020 and July 1, 2021, the U.S. population grew by just 0.1 percent...