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  • We’re Hiring A Part-Time Research Assistant

    FiveThirtyEight is seeking a diligent, well-organized and kind Research Assistant to help track down and input polls and other election data, as well as contribute research to political stories and projects.  This part-time position plays a critical role in supporting FiveThirtyEight’s political coverage and interactive projects like our presidential approval tracker and pollster ratings. You’ll help maintain the databases that…

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  • FiveThirtyEight Is Hiring A Temporary Full-Time Video Producer

    FiveThirtyEight is seeking a temporary Video Producer to join our team full-time from mid-July through mid-November. This person will pitch, storyboard and edit videos about U.S. politics, filling an important role in our coverage of the 2022 midterm elections. The Video Producer will report to and work with the Senior Video Producer to direct and edit a short-form video series…

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  • Biden Is Very Unpopular. It May Not Tell Us Much About The Midterms.

    ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY SCHERER This week, a Siena College/New York Times poll showed President Biden with just a 33 percent approval rating, a result so poor that it touched off speculation — including from yours truly — about whether he would even run again in 2024. The Siena/New York Times number is on the low end of the polling consensus,…

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  • Americans Generally Support Unions — And Averting A Rail Strike

    PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY FIVETHIRTYEIGHT / GETTY IMAGES When President Biden signed a bill to prevent a rail-worker strike this past Friday, it was only the latest in a series of union actions that have gotten national attention in the past few years. Starbucks and Amazon workers are trying to unionize around the country. Nationwide, 78,000 workers went on strike in…

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  • The U.S. Poverty Rate Hit A Record Low — But Don’t Expect It To Stay That Way

    This video is part of our series “The Numbers That Defined 2022.” Transcript One of the most important numbers of the year that you might not have heard of is 7.8 percent. That’s the share of Americans who were living in poverty in 2021, according to the most recent supplemental poverty rate, which was released by the U.S. Census Bureau…

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  • The Numbers That Defined 2022

    What a year 2022 has been. There was so … much … news. We saw record-high inflation, war in Ukraine, a landmark Supreme Court session, continuing effects of the pandemic, the Winter Olympics, the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the World Cup and, of course, the midterms. In typical FiveThirtyEight fashion, we’ve been reflecting on 2022 the way we do…

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  • Rents Are Still Higher Than Before The Pandemic — And Assistance Programs Are Drying Up

    Cleveland is one of the poorest cities in the country. It’s far from the expensive coastal cities like New York City and San Francisco, where astronomically high rents are common. Cleveland doesn’t fit the stereotype of a city people want to move to; in fact, it has been losing population since the 1950s. But since 2020, there have been some…

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  • Who Americans Usually Blame After Showdowns Over Federal Spending

    SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images Playing chicken with the national economy is not unusual for Congress and the president. There was the time that former President Donald Trump ground the government to a halt because he wanted money for his border wall. Oh, and the time that tea party Republicans threatened to send the U.S. into debt default…

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  • How This Debt Ceiling Debate Could End

    House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and former Speaker John Boehner both face or faced contentious negotiations over the debt ceiling, but as the leaders of two very different Republican caucuses. Al Drago / CQ Roll Call Political battles in Washington sometimes feature the hallmarks of a bad sequel that uses the same narrative threads as its predecessor — just with less…

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  • Why So Many States Want to Ban China From Owning Farmland

    Fourteen states prohibit or restrict foreign ownership of private agricultural land, but that number may soon grow. ROBYN BECK / AFP via Getty Images The spy balloon spotted over Montana wasn’t the first recent incident to spark fears about national security and espionage in the U.S. Only a few years ago, a Chinese billionaire named Sun Guangxin planned to build…

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