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Thursday, March 31, 2022

70 Years of Work

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Everyone is always fussing about the ups and downs of women's labor force participation rate. But in fact, men's labor force partici...
Wednesday, March 30, 2022

18% of Americans Live in a Multigenerational Home

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Over the past 50 years, the share of the U.S. population that lives in a multigenerational household has more than doubled, rising from 7 pe...
Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Reversal: Big Metro Counties Lose Population

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Population growth in the United States ground to a halt during the pandemic. Between July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2021, the population grew by...
Thursday, March 24, 2022

Who's Gotten a Booster?

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As of the middle of March, 85 percent of Americans aged 18 or older had received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine and 59 percent had ...
Wednesday, March 23, 2022

56% Drop in Travel Spending

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The average American household spent 56 percent less on travel in 2020 than it did in 2019, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics' a...
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Millions Still Smoke Cigarettes

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Many millions of Americans still smoke cigarettes, despite decades of warnings, hundreds of thousands of deaths each year, and millions in h...
Thursday, March 17, 2022

Stability in Children's Living Arrangements

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The living arrangements of the nation's children have changed little over the past 12 years, according to a Census Bureau report compari...
Wednesday, March 16, 2022

How Did You Sleep Last Night?

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It's a toss-up, according to The State of Sleep in America 2022 Report.  One-third of American adults (32 percent) reported "very g...
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

$195 Billion in Medical Debt

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Nearly 1 in 10 Americans has significant medical debt, according to an analysis of the numbers by Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker. KFF re...
Thursday, March 10, 2022

Record Increase in College Grads in 2010s

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American educational attainment soared in the 2010s. The share of the population aged 25 or older with a bachelor's degree grew by 7.6 p...
Wednesday, March 09, 2022

Net Worth: Best and Worst of States

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$118,200: that was the median net worth of American households in 2019, according to the Census Bureau's 2020 Survey of Income and Progr...
Tuesday, March 08, 2022

Be Careful Where You Go

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There is great geographic variation in Covid-19 vaccination rates by urban-rural classification, according to an analysis by the CDC. Throug...
Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Not Wrong at All: 61%

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This is something to behold. Rarely do attitudes change so dramatically in just a few decades. Between 1990 and 2021, the share of Americans...
Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Democrats and Republicans Have Different Priorities

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Could there be bigger differences of opinion about the most important issues facing the nation than the ones between Democrats and Republica...
Thursday, February 17, 2022

What Should Children Learn?

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To think for oneself is the most important thing children should learn to prepare them for life, according to the 2021 General Social Survey...
Wednesday, February 16, 2022

54,170 Violent Deaths

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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 ...
Tuesday, February 15, 2022

The Five Worst States

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State of residence increasingly determines physical and economic wellbeing. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the latest statistics on he...
Thursday, February 10, 2022

Mean Age at First Birth Rises to 27.1 Years

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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...
Wednesday, February 09, 2022

The Thrill is Gone

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By now you've probably heard the news: happiness is on the wane, thanks to the pandemic. Only 19 percent of Americans reported being ...
Tuesday, February 08, 2022

First-Time Homebuyer Watch: 4th Quarter 2021

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Homeownership rate of householders aged 30 to 34, fourth quarter 2021: 48.6% Homeownership rates in the final quarter of 2021 were little ch...
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Cheryl Russell
Demographer Cheryl Russell was the editorial director of New Strategist Press and the editor-in-chief of American Demographics magazine. She has written numerous books about demographic trends. Ms. Russell is a professional demographer with a degree from Cornell University.
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