Our nation, in numbers.

How many Americans vote and how do voting rates vary by state? Examine nearly 40 years of data.

More and more Americans are going to college as tuition increases. But what’s the actual cost of higher education. Here’s an analysis of how colleges finances work and how tuition factors in.

Forty-two million people, or one in six American adults, currently carry a federal student loan. The nation’s overall student debt reached $1.6 trillion in June 2019. What’s behind this large number?