Report: Federal government ‘no longer a reliable source of widespread data collection’

Researchers say more than 3,000 data sets removed from public access for homeland security, hunger, drug use, education, disaster preparation, economy and other subjects

Since retaking office, the Trump administration has transformed how the government collects data, cut access to previously-public data and stopped collecting some data altogether. This overhaul has left significant holes in data on everything from substance use to maternal mortality.

NOTUS spoke to 18 data experts and researchers who rely on federal data who said the breadth of information no longer being collected or distributed by the federal government has been nearly impossible to track. Researchers estimate that well over 3,000 data sets have been removed from public access…(Read full story)