Economy

Congressional Democrats are pushing to give most Americans $2,000 in stimulus checks, arguing that this is a fast and direct...

Over the course of 2020, FiveThirtyEight’s visual journalists covered a historic election, an unprecedented year in sports, a raging pandemic...

Graphics by Jasmine Mithani Congress is back in session, and it has a weighty task before it — figuring out...

For the past few months, Alicia Wertz has barely seen her husband. Since schools closed in their northern Alabama town...

After three straight months of declining unemployment, we have only just returned to levels of unemployment that rival the depths...

A sudden uptick in food insecurity. A wave of evictions. People spending less money at shops and restaurants. More job...

Graphics by Jasmine Mithani Once we find a COVID-19 vaccine, our lives can return to normal, right? Economists don’t think...

Is the economy finally starting to rebound? Based on the headline numbers from the August jobs report, things sure look...

After an August jobs report that yielded better-than-expected results for American workers, economists have a much sunnier outlook on unemployment...

Back in the early days of the coronavirus in the U.S., many economists believed that aggressive lockdowns would be the...