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short readsMar 18, 2025

What the data says about the U.S. Department of Education

The Education Department is the main conduit for federal aid to public K-12 schools and a major lender to college students.
short readsMay 23, 2023

Young adults in the U.S. are reaching key life milestones later than in the past

Today’s 21-year-olds are less likely than their predecessors in 1980 to have reached five key milestones, including having a full-time job.
short readsOct 30, 2023

5 facts about Hispanic Americans and health care

Seven-in-ten Hispanic Americans say they’ve seen a doctor or other health care provider in the past year, compared with 82% among Americans overall.
reportJun 6, 2022

3. Federal government: Performance and role

Americans’ evaluations of the federal government’s performance in specific realms have shifted somewhat since 2020. For the most part, these shifts reflect changes in the political landscape: Democrats tend to rate the government’s performance more positively now than when Donald Trump was president, while Republicans have adopted more negative views – a similar, inverse shift […]
reportMar 24, 2022

1. The demographics of multigenerational households

The number of Americans who live in multigenerational family households is about four times larger than it was in the 1970s, while the number in other types of homes grew by far less. The share of the U.S. population living in multigenerational homes more than doubled over the past five decades. In March 2021, there […]
short readsAug 16, 2023

11 facts about Hispanic origin groups in the U.S.

In 2022, there were 63.7 million Hispanics living in the United States. The U.S. Hispanic population has diverse origins in Latin America and Spain.
reportMay 31, 2024

Methodology

The data for the historical analysis in this report is derived from the Annual Social and Economic Supplements (ASEC) of the Current Population Survey (CPS), which are conducted in March of every year. The specific files used in this report are from March 1971 to March 2023 and contain data on the annual income of […]
reportDec 4, 2023

Wealth Surged in the Pandemic, but Debt Endures for Poorer Black and Hispanic Families

About one-in-four Black households and one-in-seven Hispanic households had no wealth or were in debt in 2021, compared with about one-in-ten U.S. households overall.
short readsJul 20, 2022

Young adults in U.S. are much more likely than 50 years ago to be living in a multigenerational household

A quarter of U.S. adults ages 25 to 34 resided in a multigenerational family household in 2021, up from 9% in 1971.
reportMay 31, 2024

The State of the Asian American Middle Class

The share of Asian Americans in the U.S. middle class has held steady since 2010, while the share in the upper-income tier has grown.

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