Today FiveThirtyEight is launching the first episode of "Kitchen Table Politics," a five-part podcast series exploring the issues impacting most Americans and their wallets. The podcast, available within the existing FiveThirtyEight Elections feed, will introduce a new episode every Thursday for the next five weeks.
Hosted by senior writer Farai Chideya, the series will cover five different life stages from birth through retirement including: child care, education, wages and employment, health care and retirement. Each episode features a discussion with policy experts, including FiveThirtyEight staffers and outsiders, along with personal stories from listeners left by voicemail and edited for the podcast. Several messages are also featured online each week.
In today's installment, Chideya examines "the costs of having and raising children, including how federal, state and local governments treat paid leave when a child is born or adopted and the cost of childcare for working parents."
"Kitchen Table Politics" is produced and edited by Galen Druke, Simone Landon, and Jody Avirgan with help from Tony Chow and Lucina Melesio.
FiveThirtyEight, which launched as an
ESPN entity in 2014, is a data journalism organization delivering compelling stories across the verticals of politics, economy, science, life and sports. The site, founded by award-winning author and statistician Nate Silver, first gained national attention during the 2008 presidential election, when it correctly predicted the results of the presidential election in 49 of 50 states, along with all 35 U.S. Senate races. Since its debut at ESPN, FiveThirtyEight has built a team with a broad set of skills and experiences in order to apply statistical analysis, data visualization, and data-literate reporting to topics in the news and in everyday life.
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