What's lost when the White House cuts over 3,000 government data sets

In the little more than a year since the Trump administration has been back in power, researchers estimate that over 3,000 sets of government data have disappeared from public access. These data include information on food security, the labor force, and maternal and infant mortality. The effects of their loss will be hard to measure.

“Effectively every population has relied on federal data in some way or another,” said Shifra Dayak, a reporter at NOTUS. “Without it, there are just a lot of gaps in measuring the food systems in our country, the mental health systems in our country, and the public health systems in our country, and really everything else in between.”

“Marketplace” host Kai Ryssdal talked to Dayak about her reporting on how the loss of federal government data could affect policy-making systems not just in the U.S., but around the world.

To listen to their conversation, use the audio player above