Drew DeSilver

Perhaps surprisingly, not very many people earn minimum wage, and they make up a smaller share of the workforce than they used to.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, working multiple jobs has become less common over the past two decades.

By now, most U.S. schoolchildren are either back in the classroom or headed there soon. As they make the transition from summer camp and bug spray to math homework and science projects, their weary parents may well wonder if children in the U.S. spend less time in the classroom than kids in other countries. The […]

Although the official unemployment rate was down to 6.2% in July, many economists and other analysts have concluded that that measure doesn't fully capture what's happened to the U.S. economy since the Great Recession officially ended in the summer of 2009.

Over the next decade or two, the spread of robotics and machine intelligence likely will affect millions of U.S. workers in jobs long thought to be relatively immune to computerization.

Big cities in the U.S. tend toward the liberal side of the political spectrum, even when they’re within conservative states (residents of Austin sometimes joke that their city is “an island surrounded by Texas”). But which cities are more liberal — or conservative — than their reputations?

Technological change already has reshaped the U.S. workforce -- creating new job categories while others fade away.

This interactive chart makes comparing occupational employment and pay across states not only easy but fun.

Midway through its second and final year, the 113th Congress remains one of the least legislatively productive in recent history.

While online survey panels have long been used by market researchers, they’re relatively new in the opinion-research field, and views on them are sharply divided.