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Why Many Americans Don’t See The Racial Wealth Gap
In the last year and a quarter, the pandemic has served as a stark reminder of just how unequal America…
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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. FiveThirtyEight is…
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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.…
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How White House Economists Are Thinking About COVID-19 Relief
In this episode of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, host Galen Druke speaks with Heather Boushey, a member of the Council…
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How Fast Is The Economy Recovering?
How Fast Is The Economy Recovering? By Julia Wolfe and Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux For nearly a year, the economy has been…
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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 way…
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The 40 Weirdest (And Best) Charts We Made In This Long, Strange Year
Over the course of 2020, FiveThirtyEight’s visual journalists covered a historic election, an unprecedented year in sports, a raging pandemic…
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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…
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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 August,…
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Experts Think The Economy Would Be Stronger If COVID-19 Lockdowns Had Been More Aggressive
Back in the early days of the coronavirus in the U.S., many economists believed that aggressive lockdowns would be the…
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