Since 1979, panels of health experts working for the government have been setting decade-by-decade goals on a variety of health measures and tracking the nation's progress toward meeting them.

(AP/Paul Sancya) The effective federal tax rate of the richest 1 percent of Americans has plummeted even while their incomes have skyrocketed, as the chart below shows. Households in the top 1 ...

The University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Wharton Budget Model makes that easy to do, cleaning up and analyzing raw data the ...

But much progress has been made on that front. Veteran homelessness dropped by 10 percent between 2013 and ... s annual homelessness report. This chart shows a jump in the number of beds for ...

Since the first Global Findex survey in 2011, the share of adults worldwide with a financial account rose from 51 percent to 76 percent. In developing economies, account ownership has increased by 30 ...

Note: The “intergenerational earnings elasticity” measure used in the charts below describes the percentage of a parent ... at the Center for American Progress. The positions of American ...