americans

According to a new poll, the majority of Americans believe that 2012 will be a good year.

For pretty much an entire generation, televisions have been as ubiquitous as living room sofas — but that could be changing. For the first time in 40 years, the number of households with TV sets has actually dropped, despite the fact that the number of US households in general has continued to grow.

Everyone likes vacation, and yet Americans prove themselves to be the workaholics they’re rumored to be by not using all of the vacation time allotted to them by employers.

Data examined over a seven-year period revealed 48 million Americans — about one in five — aged 12 and older suffer from some form of hearing loss, far exceeding previous estimates of 21 to 29 million people.

A new survey has found that New York is the city Americans where they would most and least like to live.