While those who wish to make participation in the American Community Survey voluntary raise important points and concern for individual privacy is paramount, the government can best serve the American people by continuing to gather high quality survey data through the ACS.

Public opinion expert Karlyn Bowman, with researcher Andrew Rugg, explores trends from major pollsters on the environment, offshore drilling, gas prices, nuclear power, and global warming.

Here’s the problem: The president never defines what he means by “fair.” And this is for a simple reason: his definition is simply not recognizable to most Americans.

If ever we need evidence of ideology run rampant, the House vote to eliminate the annual American Community Survey and the Economic Census to provide basic information on the state of businesses and industries in the country and data used for generating quarterly gross domestic product estimates is exhibit A.

Just because people are dissatisfied with the Social Security system does not mean they are ready for private accounts.

The Cold War is an increasingly distant memory in American military minds, except in the minds of the arms control community, and in particular those who seek the elimination of nuclear weapons. Alas, our president is a member in good standing of this community—indeed, an organizer.So, too, it...

The upward trend in income inequality prior to 1993 significantly slowed thereafter once researchers controlled for top coding in the public use data and censoring in the internal data.

A new procedure improves on existing imputation methods in the labor earnings inequality literature.