The Current

The US government data purge is a loss for policymaking and research


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In its first two months, the Trump administration has not only laid off thousands of federal workers and shuttered agencies, but it has also purged taxpayer-funded data sets from a swathe of government websites, including data on crime, sexual orientation, gender, education, climate, and global development. Caren Grown, senior fellow in the Center for Sustainable Development at Brookings, joins The Current to explain why the loss of data and the expertise behind its collection will harm good policymaking.

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https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-us-government-data-purge-is-a-loss-for-policymaking-and-research/

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