Gov. Stein was elected in 2024 and sworn in on Jan. 1, 2025. The scored record above covers North Carolina's outcomes during this continuous service, lagged per category (each category's lag was fixed before scoring).
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North Carolina Under Josh Stein
Democratic · Sworn in Jan. 1, 2025 · Now in 1st term
North Carolina under Gov. Stein is not yet scored — the attribution lag means the first scorable data hasn't been published.
Josh Stein
North Carolina · Democratic · since Jan. 2025 · 1st term
Overall
Not yet scored
needs 3+ scored categories
| Category | Latest | Score vs. peers | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Honesty | — | In human review | |
| Spending discipline | — | Rubric in development | |
| Education scale score | 275.8 ’24 | Too early | |
| Air quality AQI | 41 ’24 | Too early | |
| Water quality % of community systems | 2.4 ’25 | Too early | |
| Unemployment % | 3.8 ’25 | Too early | |
| Health coverage % of adults 18-64 | 12.8 ’24 | Too early | |
| Tax burden % of personal income | 5.4 ’24 | Too early | |
| Energy cost cents/kWh | 14.1 ’24 | Too early | |
| Cost of living index, US=100 | 94.3 ’24 | Too early | |
| Crime deaths per 100,000 | 7.8 ’24 | Too early | |
| Teen births per 1,000 females 15-19 | 14.3 ’24 | Too early | |
| Wellbeing mean days of past 30 | 4.6 ’24 | Too early | |
| School food quality | — | Rubric in development | |
| School shootings | 1 ’24 | Context · 6/10yr | |
| Obesity % of adults | 34.5 ’24 | Too early | |
| Early literacy % of 4th graders | 41.7 ’24 | Too early | |
| Gun deaths deaths per 100,000 (age-adjusted) | 16.3 ’24 | Too early | |
| Food-aid access index (higher = easier access) | 0.9 ’23 | Too early | |
| Jobless-benefit access % of unemployed receiving UI | 12.7 ’24 | Too 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, 2010–2025
North Carolina against all 49 other states North Carolina 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.
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every published number, reproducible| Methodology | v2.1, 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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North Carolina under Gov. Stein 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.