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We've been thinking about alternative sources of data because of the shutdown and just this general defunding and antagonism towards businesses like the BLS.

You can't function in a $30 trillion economy with the data you need if you're starving your statistical agencies for funds, which we've been doing for the past 15 years.

There's a narrative that we're going to have a manufacturing boom in America, but if half of GDP growth is going to data centers, it raises the cost of capital for the rest of the economy, making it harder to build factories and startups.

We need to double down on BLS. We need more funding in the government. We need better data collection services from the federal government. Yes, 100%.

Monica Medina warned that the current trajectory of reducing NOAA's resources could lead to a significant gap in our climate data, making it harder to prepare for future environmental challenges.

The question I've gotten most over the past two months is, is there a good private sector replacement for the Bureau of Labor Statistics data? And the answer is unequivocally not.

It's ridiculous to me, but this to me seems to be the playbook. You basically starve these agencies of funding, and then you say the reason that you're messing up isn't because you don't have the money and the technology that everyone else has. It's because you're politically motivated or you're biased in some sort of way.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics and other agencies will suspend operations without a funding bill, affecting businesses that rely on government data for decision-making.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics and other agencies will suspend operations without a funding bill, affecting businesses that rely on government data for decision-making.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics and other agencies will suspend operations without a funding bill, affecting businesses that rely on government data for decision-making.