Federal government statistics provide critical information to the country and serve a key role in a democracy. For decades, sample surveys with instruments care

Since the early days of the nation, the federal government has collected information on the revenues, expenditures, and other features of state and local jurisd

A wake-up call for America to create a new framework for democratizing data. Public data are foundational to our democratic system. People need consistently hig

The Politics of Numbers is the first major study of the social and political forces behind the nation's statistics. In more than a dozen essays, its editors and