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Civil Servants Credited With Saving the US Census
Original: Data Are Made, Not Found A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census
A story titled 'Data Are Made, Not Found' credits career civil servants with protecting the US Census from political interference, framing data collection as a product of political and institutional choices rather than neutral fact-finding. The piece highlights the tension between politics and professional statistics in the United States, casting Census staff as defenders of accurate public data.
Why now: Ongoing debate over political pressure on federal statistical agencies and trust in government data
US CensusUS Census BureauUSC Annenberg
Evidence
- Data Are Made, Not Found A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census · annenberg.usc.edu
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