Is College Worth It?
Americans have mixed views on the importance of having a degree. 47% say the cost is worth it only if someone doesn’t have to take out loans.
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Americans have mixed views on the importance of having a degree. 47% say the cost is worth it only if someone doesn’t have to take out loans.
Examine the trajectories of the two biggest recessions and recoveries in modern U.S. history, comparing them side-by-side.
When Americans peer 30 years into the future, they see a country in decline economically, politically and on the world stage.
Tax burdens in the U.S. are lower than most of its developed-nation peers – in some cases, well below.
From Social Security to national parks, a look at long-range trends in federal outlays relative to the U.S. economy
On the occasion of President Obama’s last State of the Union address, a look back at his first congressional address – his priorities, those of the public at the time and what’s happened in the years since.
Overview The record generation gap that played out at the voting booth in the last two presidential elections is echoed by large differences by age in attitudes about the tradeoff between reducing the federal deficit and preserving entitlements for older adults, according to a new nationwide Pew Research Center survey. Older adults by a lopsided […]
The multi-generational American family household is staging a comeback — driven in part by the job losses and home foreclosures of recent years, but more so by demographic changes that have been gathering steam for decades.
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