The article discusses the ongoing removal of federal datasets by the Department of Government Efficiency, jeopardizing crucial data collection and sharing. This targeted assault compromises the government's capacity to measure societal conditions, hinder assessments of programs, and evaluate solutions effectively. The focus on workforce reductions has overshadowed long-term implications for data availability, threatening to impair resource allocation and preparation for future societal challenges. As the article suggests, the lack of data is akin to neglecting health checkups, ultimately leading to dire consequences for American society.
The survival of that data is now in doubt, as a result of the Department of Government Efficiency's comprehensive assault on the federal bureaucracy.
Reaction to those cuts has focused understandably on the hundreds of thousands of civil servants who have lost their jobs or are on the verge of doing so.
The government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder for elected officials to gauge problems.
Less data means diminished resources to prepare for the inevitable, like an unhealthy person unwilling to get a checkup.
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