America’s Statistical System Is Breaking Down | Canceled surveys, missing datasets and staffing cuts are leaving the US with growing blind spots — and weakening trust in official numbers.

That’s exactly what they want. They want to be able to spit out whatever number they find convenient and not have anyone be able to give an actual number.

For decades to come, kids will look at charts and ask: what’s that gap from? And we’ll tell them, “That’s the Trump administration”

John Wayne never needed math. Stereotypical math geeks are not going to have the big 6-gun and machismo. That is all you need to solve any problem the US might face.