What if government data becomes untrustworthy?

The GOP’s budget bill, now at the Senate, includes proposed cuts
to federal statistical agencies. That could make government data
narrower and less reliable. And when governments fail to put out
dependable data? “It ends up being a real drag on the economy,”
said economist Laura Veldkamp. Also in this episode: We visit an
entrepreneurship hub in Provo, Utah, experts weight the merits of
hard and soft data, and warehouses see a usage boom amid tariff
uncertainty.


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