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• Valentine's Day 2008: Feb. 14: Love is in the air
  2.2 million is the number of marriages that take place in the United States annually. That breaks down to 5,918 a day
• U.S. Businesses Invest Trillions in the Future
  Annual capital spending by all U.S. nonfarm businesses on structures and equipment varied cyclically, but went from about $1.05 trillion in 1999 to about $1.15 trillion in 2005, according to the Census Bureau’s
• Foreign Films Translate Into Growing Revenue Stream
  Foreign film admissions revenue increased 18.7 percent to $216 million in 2006, according to new data released from the U.S. Census Bureau.
• The 2007 Holiday Season: Thanksgiving, Christmas & New Years Fun Facts & Statistics
  The holiday season is a time for gathering and celebrating with friends and family, gift-giving, reflection and thanks. To commemorate this time of year, the U.S. Census Bureau presents the following holiday-related facts and figures from its data collection.
• Parents More Active in Raising Their Children;Children Get Less Television Time
  Parents are taking a more active role in the lives of their children than they did 10 years ago, according to data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. For example, in 2004, 47 percent of teenagers had restrictions on what they watched on television, when they watched, and for how long, up from 40 percent in 1994 (Table 11).
• Thanksgiving Day 2007
  272 million are the preliminary estimate of turkeys raised in the United States in 2007
• Renters Four Times More Likely to Move Than Homeowners
  The U.S. Census Bureau has released a series of 34 tables on the 40 million Americans who moved between 2005 and 2006, including characteristics of movers by type of move.
• Veterans Day 2007: Nov. 11
  There are 23.7 million  military veterans in the United States in 2006. There are 1.7 million female veterans in 2006.
  
• Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid Account for Half of Federal Spending
  Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid accounted for more than $1 trillion of the $2.3 trillion the federal government spent in 2005, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which publishes the only consolidated source of data on the geographic distribution of federal expenditures.
• The 2008 Presidential Election: The Census Bureau Reports
  Every four years, voters head to the polls to elect our nation’s president. The process begins with a series of primaries and caucuses in the winter and spring, and ends with the November general election. To mark the start of the 2008 presidential election season, the Census Bureau has culled the following facts from previously released statistical reports.
• Adult Correctional Facilities, Nursing Homes and Other Group Quarters, Census Bureau Releases New Data
  New data released today from the U.S. Census Bureau provide the first social and economic characteristic profiles of the people living in group quarters — such as adult correctional facilities, college dorms and nursing homes — in nearly three decades.
• Home Equity Lines of Credit - Who Uses This Source of Credit?
  This report profiles single-family homeowners who used home equity lines of credit in 2001 and compares them to their counterparts from 10 years earlier, including age, home value, mortgage, age of home, number of loans for home improvements and proportion of people using home equity for debt consolidation.
• New Census Bureau Data Reveal More Older Workers, Homeowners, Non-English Speakers
  Nationally, nearly one in four people between the ages of 65 and 74 (23.2 percent) were in the labor force (either working or looking for work) in 2006, an increase from 19.6 percent in 2000. States with some of the lowest rates of older workers in the labor force include West Virginia (15.7 percent), Michigan (18.8 percent) and Arizona (19.4 percent). (Michigan and Arizona were not statistically different.)
• More Than 300 Counties Now "Majority-Minority
  Nearly one in every 10 of the nation’s 3,141 counties has a population that is more than 50 percent minority. In 2006, eight counties that had not previously been majority-minority pushed the national total to 303, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today.
• Unmarried and Single Americans Week, Sept. 16-22, 2007
  There are 92 million unmarried and single Americans 18 and older in 2006. This group comprised 42 percent of all U.S. residents 18 and older..
• Labor Day 2007: Fun, Facts & Features
  56 percent is the projected percentage growth from 2002 to 2014 in the number of home health aides. Forecasters expect this occupation to grow at a faster rate than any other.
• How Americans Get to Work: Alone
  Despite rising fuel costs, commuters continued to drive their cars in 2005, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau analysis of data from the American Community Survey.
• 2007 Hurricane Season Begins
  The north Atlantic hurricane season begins June 1 and lasts through November. The U.S. Census Bureau produces timely local data that are critical to emergency planning, preparedness and recovery efforts. This edition of Facts for Features spotlights the number of people living in areas that could be most affected by these acts of nature.
• Minority Population Tops 100 Million
  The nation's minority population reached 100.7 million, according to the national and state estimates by race, Hispanic origin, sex and age released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. A year ago, the minority population totaled 98.3 million.
• Single-Parent Households Showed Little Variation