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Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More

ProPublica · Alec MacGillis · last updated
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades.
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