Data, data, who has the data?

[wtg]

Alternate thread title: How to deal with inconvenient data

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) under the administration of President Trump announced on Saturday that it will end a longstanding annual food insecurity survey, calling it "redundant, costly, politicized, and extraneous."

The Household Food Security Report provides yearly data on the lack of access to adequate nutrition for low-income Americans, and helps shape policy on how to combat food insecurity and hunger.

The USDA's announcement comes after Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law this summer, which expands the work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. This, in effect, will leave an estimated 2.4 million Americans without food aid.

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/22/nx-s1-5549115/usda-food-insecurity-survey-hunger

[wtg]

The Bureau of Labor Statistics clarified Monday that it will delay the release of a key report until Oct. 30, citing a discrepancy that agency officials are taking extra time to address.

https://www.axios.com/2025/09/22/bls-cpi-report-inflation-delay

[ShiroKuro]

Moving forward, any inconvenient data will be suppressed, destroyed, and simply not collected in the first place.

[Axtremus]

Re: the USDA ending the food insecurity survey
It is consistent with the “small government” philosophy.
I can see old school Conservatives supporting a move like this.

[CHAS]

@Axtremus
"old school Conservatives"
I can them rednecks, among other things

[Bernard]

There can be no such thing as small government in a country that has evolved from a handful of states in the early years of this country, to the sprawling country it is today. A history that includes the birth of the industrial revolution and justice's broadening of corporate power due to misguided interpretations of Darwinism. Effective small government in the year 2025? Pipe dream.

[Nina]

Remember "compassionate conservatives"? Yeah, me neither.

[Nina]

@wtg they're getting their passports ready

[Steve Miller]

I see nothing! I hear nothing!

• Sgt. Schultz