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Checking in on America’s “data infrastructure”

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst

Feb 11, 2021

For everything you do, there's a statistic, and behind that number are federal statistical agencies in need of attention.

Whether it’s determining optimal highway width or the size of Social Security benefits, “there’s a stat for that,” says Robert Santos, president of the American Statistical Association.

Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

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