May 24, 2019
Stat: 46. The percentage of American adults who worry that they will not be able to live comfortably in retirement.
Story: After all the hard work and child rearing, do Americans get to finally relax and retire with some financial stability? Research shows the golden age of retirement doesn’t always shine. Hear why in...
May 17, 2019
Stat: $233,610. The cost of raising a child through age 17 for a middle-class American family, not including a college education.
Story: From diapers to day care and beyond, it’s getting more expensive to raise a family in the U.S. And just keeping up with daily costs makes saving for a rainy day or retirement all the...
May 9, 2019
Stat: 86. The percentage of women ages 40-44
who are mothers, compared with 80 percent in 2006, according to a
Pew Research Center analysis.
Story: American women are waiting longer to have
children—but are more likely to have kids than they were a decade
ago. Also, 1 in 4 parents living with a child is not
married....
May 3, 2019
Stat: 7. On average, Americans are waiting
nearly seven years longer to get married than they did in 1968,
according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Story: Does putting off marriage mean people no
longer want to say “I do?” To learn more about this trend, we spoke
to couples who are waiting to wed—in the first...