Economy & Work

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.

Alone time for older Americans amounts to about seven hours a day. Time spent alone rises to over 10 hours a day among those living on their own.

Majorities of Americans say voting in elections, paying taxes and following the law are very important to good citizenship, according to a 2018 survey.

Classes have ended for the summer at U.S. public schools, but a sizable share of teachers are still hard at work at second jobs outside the classroom.

Republicans express intensely negative views of “socialism” and very positive views of “capitalism.” Majorities of Democrats view both terms positively.

This year will likely be the first year in which women are a majority of the U.S. college-educated labor force.

The most export-dependent places in America often are far from big cities and are more likely to be in the South or Midwest than the coasts.

Those 60 and older now spend more than half of their daily leisure time, four hours and 16 minutes, in front of screens.

Black adults are particularly likely to say slavery continues to have an impact: More than eight-in-ten say this is the case.

Public support for the separation of church and state is widespread in Western Europe, even in countries that have a government-mandated church tax to fund religious institutions, according to a new analysis of a recent Pew Research Center study.