Economy

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

It’s been about four months since the National Bureau of Economic Research declared that the U.S. was officially in a...

The final jobs report before the presidential election is here. In September, 661,000 more people were employed than in August,...

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

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

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

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

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

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