Current economic conditions, including job losses, illiquid credit markets, an ailing construction industry and reduced consumer spending, have combined to increase risk and uncertainty not only ...

Prior to the twentieth century, the age structure of most populations could be visualized as a pyramid. High fertility and mortality rates meant that the very young, who formed the wide base of the ...

Are we more or less dependent on govern­ment-specifically, the federal government- today than we were 40 years ago? Has the reli­ance on the income and social support pro­grams of the federal ...