Richard Fry

Compared with 2000, suburban populations are less engaged in the labor market, experiencing declining incomes and seeing home values that have not kept pace with those of the central cities.

About half of U.S. adults lived in middle-income households in 2018, according to our new analysis of government data.

As of July 1, 2019, Millennials have surpassed Baby Boomers as the United States' largest living adult generation.

A majority of U.S. households have some level of investment in the stock market, mostly in the form of retirement accounts such as 401(k)s.

The 30-year low reflects in part tight labor markets and falling unemployment, but also higher shares of young women at work or in school.

Financial independence is one of the many markers used to designate the crossover from childhood into young adulthood, and it’s a milestone most Americans (64%) think young adults should reach by the time they are 22 years old, according to a new Pew Research Center study. But that’s not the reality for most young adults who’ve reached this age.

This decade will likely be the first since the one that began in 1850 to break a long-running decline in American household size.

Household incomes in the United States have rebounded from their 2012 bottom in the wake of the Great Recession. And for the most part, the typical incomes of households headed by less-educated adults as well as more-educated adults have increased.

Around a quarter of college faculty in the U.S. were nonwhite in fall 2017, compared with 45% of students.

The majority of Baby Boomers are still in the labor force: In 2018, 53% of adults ages 54 to 72 were still working or looking for work.