According to a report released by the BLS, at age 22, women were more likely than men to be enrolled in college and were more likely to have received a bachelor's degree. Twenty-nine percent of women were attending college during the October when they were age 22, compared with 25.2% of men.

This chart puts President Obama's spending freeze in context by illustrating the recent growth in this portion of the federal budget. The data is in “budget authority,” which is the amount of new spending authorized each year. Note that a portion of that authorized spending usually splashes over into subsequent years.

Many people, when they hear the phrase “union worker,” probably imagine someone who works on an assembly line. But such blue-collar jobs are probably no longer representative of the typical union man or woman.

Just four states recorded a drop in the unemployment rate for December, indicating that though the labor market continues to inch toward stabilization widespread job growth still hasn’t arrived.

Though they inhabit the same island, Haiti and the Domenican Republic have dramaticalaly different economies. Gross domestic product per capita in the DR is almost eight times higher.

The top 3 federal job-creators were LBJ, JFK, and Obama, Democrats, while 4 out of the top 5 top federal job-slashers were Nixon, Bush, Bush, and Ford, Republicans. Interestingly, Clinton ranks first in cutting the federal payroll; it fell by almost 10% when the population grew by roughly the same amount - in adjusted terms, that's -18% fewer federal jobs.

A new study by the Pew Research Center charts the growth of household income for married and unmarried adults in America and finds the biggest gains among married households. Figures are in 2007 dollars, adjusted for household size and then scaled to reflect a three-person household.

I’m frankly shocked when people claim Europe is as rich as the United States, for the simple reason that the data showing otherwise is so abundant. The following charts, both from presumably impeccable sources, should be more than enough to end the argument.

According to the latest government figures, just over 66,000 loan modifications made under the government's program for distressed homeowners are now permanent, and this shows about a 43% failure rate (loans permanent divided by loans permanent + loans no longer active).

An international comparison shows housing prices accelerated even faster in some countries than in the U.S.

The chart  provides some  perspective on Europe's economic success, based on data that compare 2007 GDP per person on a purchasing power parity basis for U.S. states and European countries, and shows that if various European countries became part of the United States how they would compare to state... More

Young adults are in for a wake-up call if health care reform passes. For the first time ever, the federal government is going to require that everybody obtain health insurance coverage. For those who have insurance through their employers, the so-called individual mandate may have very little impact. But for young adults, many of whom are not currently covered,... More

New data released by the federal government chart the growth of federal involvement in health care spending over the last nearly 50 years to the point where government expenditures nearly equal private health care spending today.

New government figures on health care spending show how health care dollars devoted to care (that is, minus administrative costs, research, and spending on equipment) are allocated in the United States. The figures also suggest where cost cutting will have to come to slow growth of health expenditures.