14-07-2025
Statistics and Politics Are a Dangerous Mix
How much longer can we trust government statistics?
After staffing shortages at the Bureau of Labor Statistics reportedly affected the agency's ability to collect data for the Consumer Price Index last month, a handful of Democratic senators wrote to the Department of Labor demanding to know how it affected the agency's statistics. Earlier this year, the government made the radical move to dissolve several external expert advisory committees that served the BLS and the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Meanwhile, across industries as diverse as medicine, insurance and education, professionals are dealing with the outright disappearance of data from government websites.
