July 20, 2026Methodology v2.1 · Data: BLS, 20102025
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GovernorsDelaware

Delaware Under Matt Meyer

Democratic · Sworn in Jan. 21, 2025 · Now in 1st term

Delaware under Gov. Meyer is not yet scored — the attribution lag means the first scorable data hasn't been published.

Matt Meyer
Delaware · Democratic · since Jan. 2025 · 1st term
Overall
Not yet scored
needs 3+ scored categories
CategoryLatestScore vs. peers
HonestyIn human review
Spending disciplineRubric in development
Education scale score263.124Too early
Air quality AQI4124Too early
Water quality % of community systems2.325Too early
Unemployment %4.825Too early
Health coverage % of adults 18-6410.324Too early
Tax burden % of personal income9.124Too early
Energy cost cents/kWh16.624Too early
Cost of living index, US=10099.824Too early
Crime deaths per 100,0006.924Too early
Teen births per 1,000 females 15-1913.124Too early
Wellbeing mean days of past 304.924Too early
School food qualityRubric in development
School shootings024Context · 1/10yr
Obesity % of adults36.624Too early
Early literacy % of 4th graders44.624Too early
Gun deaths deaths per 100,000 (age-adjusted)11.824Too early
Food-aid access index (higher = easier access)0.923Too early
Jobless-benefit access % of unemployed receiving UI26.724Too early

Scores are trends vs. the other 49 states over this governor’s window, in σ; *thin data (under 3 points). Tap ? on any row for what it measures, its chart, and the source. All provisional while the term runs. Methodology v2.1

Unemployment Rate, 20102025

Delaware against all 49 other states
02468101214%2010201520202025took officeDelaware50-state median0815%20152025
Delaware 50-state median Other 49 states

Annual-average unemployment rate — the longest-running series on the card, charted in full. The shaded band is its scored window: it opens one year after inauguration and tracks through the newest published data. The dashed line is the 50-state median, shown for context; scoring uses the median of the other 49 states. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Local Area Unemployment Statistics.

The Record

Gov. Meyer was elected in 2024 and sworn in on Jan. 21, 2025. The scored record above covers Delaware's outcomes during this continuous service, lagged per category (each category's lag was fixed before scoring).

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Methodologyv2.1, preregistered — directions and lags fixed before scoring; full dataset at /pwr.json

Every score is a fitted log-linear trend over that category’s window, minus the median trend of the other 49 states, standardized by the spread across states (σ) and capped at ±2.5. Positive always means “moved better than peers” under the category’s preregistered direction.

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Delaware under Gov. Meyer is not yet scored — the attribution lag means the first scorable data hasn't been published. — Political Grades, methodology v2.1, data through 2025. Provisional; trend-vs-peers scoring; relative movement, not causation.