Thanks to the rise in marriages during the war, and to general prosperity, the U.S. added 2,800,000 more consumers to its population in ... the statisticians did not expect it to reach until ...

Governments worldwide are offering cash incentives and creative policies to boost birth rates, but declining fertility trends ...

Social Security gets the bulk of its funding from payroll taxes. And while that revenue stream is set to continue, in the ...

Alongside the Club for Growth, such groups as Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform and the Koch Network’s Americans for ...

A society with fewer marriages may be happier, but it also worsens economic inequality. Allison Schrager is a Bloomberg ...

Millions of US boomers are refusing to give their $84 trillion in real estate, wealth away to their adult kids — here’s why ...

The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.

Ms. Collins and Mr. Stephens are Opinion columnists. They converse every week. Gail Collins: Bret, we’ve spent so much time ...

In Ray Dalio's forthcoming book "How Countries Go Broke" he argues that the United States' budget deficit should be cut.

Is having a baby an asset or a liability on the campaign trail? Three working mothers unpack Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s ...

Let's be honest, everyone who works at USAID knows about the appalling waste and occasional malevolence that happens within ...

They would come on and you would say, “Hi,” and their little faces would light up, and they would be like, “Oh, it’s ... babies looking a bit unsettled in the short time we had them for ...