Trump’s Government Is Purging Core Economic and Social Data

from Bulwark Takes · host The Bulwark

After the shutdown froze key agencies, the U.S. is now stuck with permanent black holes in the economic record from missing jobs numbers, missing inflation data, and missing surveys that can never be recovered. But this crisis didn’t start with the shutdown. Andrew Egger talks to Catherine Rampell to get her take on the data series that have been deleted, defunded, or censored under Trump.Read Catherine’s article here.

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