There’s been a “targeted, surgical removal of data sets, or elements of data sets, that are not aligned with the administration’s priorities,” said Denice Ross at the Federation of American Scientists.

Just 30% of respondents did some form of socializing on an average day in 2024 — down 8% from a decade ago.

GDP and other hard data are more comprehensive and focus on the past. While anecdotal evidence is more fickle, but can show early signs of an economic shift.

They’re backward-looking indicators, but economists can’t know where we are unless they know where we’ve been.

Yale’s Martha Gimbel tracks frequently updated information like weekly unemployment claims and private-sector reports.

You can’t manage what you can’t measure. And under the Trump administration, a number of data sets that investors and businesses use have gone missing.

One outcome of the “Middle Eastern or North African” (MENA) box will be a clearer picture of economic conditions in Arab American communities.

According to the latest Marketplace-Edison Research Poll, Biden supporters are less likely than Trump supporters to believe economic data from the federal government.

U.S. civil servants who collect and analyze statistics are effectively shielded from political pressure.

On foot of concerns that numbers from Puerto Rico itself could be flawed, the U.S. government is preparing to release gross domestic product data on the U.S. territory for the first time. We took a look at what the adjusted financial data could mean for the island as it continues to recover from Hurricane Maria […]