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September’s Jobs Report Is A Political Rorschach Test
The final jobs report before the presidential election is here. In September, 661,000 more people were employed than in…
The Economy Won’t Be Back To Normal Until 2022 Or Later, According To Our Survey Of Economists
It’s been about four months since the National Bureau of Economic Research declared that the U.S. was officially in a…
The 40 Weirdest (And Best) Charts We Made In This Long, Strange Year
Over the course of 2020, FiveThirtyEight’s visual journalists covered a…
Will The Debate Over $2,000 Stimulus Checks Help Democrats In Georgia?
Congressional Democrats are pushing to give most Americans $2,000 stimulus checks, arguing that this is a fast and direct…
How White House Economists Are Thinking About COVID-19 Relief
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Five Things The COVID-19 Bill Revealed About How Washington Will Work In The Biden Era
President Biden will soon sign into law a $1.9 trillion bill intended to boost the economy and help the U.S. deal with…
We’re Hiring A Part-Time Copy Editor/Fact-Checker
Accuracy, rigor and clarity are core values here at FiveThirtyEight, and we’re looking for someone who shares them.…
Why Many Americans Can’t See The Wealth Gap Between White And Black America
In the last year and a quarter, the pandemic has served as a stark reminder of just how unequal America still is. But it…
How The Pandemic Changed The Sex Work Industry
UPDATE (Aug. 25, 2021, 11:35 a.m.): When FiveThirtyEight published this video…
The Debt Ceiling Is Dangerous. Here’s Why It Probably Isn’t Going Anywhere.
All-out partisan conflict has jammed the gears in the U.S. Senate in recent years, causing a virtual standstill. We’ve…