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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell made a plea on Wednesday for the government not to cut back too aggressively on its ...

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New research published in Science reveals what experts are calling a "quiet crisis" in population data collection.

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Taiwanese should be careful when using Chinese mobile applications due to potential security breaches, the National Security ...

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Census data has underpinned nearly every aspect of political decision-making and policy development for decades. The new ...

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States are not required to share their data with the C.D.C., which has at times, including at crucial points during the pandemic, impeded the agency’s ability to understand what was happening ...