The employment-population ratio is the number of employed people divided by the civilian noninstitutional population age 16 and older.
Median earnings are the midpoint of an earnings distribution: half of workers earn more and half earn less.
No. In BLS productivity statistics, hourly compensation includes wages plus benefits paid per hour of work, including employer contributions such as health insurance and retirement.
Yes. Experimental research shows that semantically related labels can change judgments of the same underlying action. In a 2021 series of studies involving 1,906 U.S. participants, euphemistic wording made actions seem more favorable even w
Communication scholars Garth Jowett and Victoria O’Donnell define propaganda as a deliberate, systematic attempt to shape perceptions, manipulate cognitions, and direct behavior toward a response desired by the propagandist.
In 2025 annual-average BLS data, about one-quarter of unemployed workers ages 55–64 had been unemployed for 27 weeks or longer—the standard statistical definition of long-term unemployment.
In July 2023, 11.9 million U.S. workers were independent contractors on their sole or main job, representing 7.4% of total employment. BLS includes independent consultants and freelance workers in this category.
The NIH Revitalization Act, signed June 10, 1993, required the director of the National Institutes of Health to ensure that “women are included as subjects in each project” of NIH clinical research and that members of minority groups are in
The National Low Income Housing Coalition’s 2026 national estimates identify roughly 11 million extremely low-income renter households and approximately 3.8 million rental homes that are both affordable and available to them — a shortage of
HUD’s archived National Association of REALTORS® housing-affordability table shows that in 1980 the median existing-home price was $62,200, median family income was $21,023, and the income required to qualify was $26,328. The qualifying-inc
