Trump moving U.S. away from real fact to 'fantastical numbers': Economist

Just how significant is it for Donald Trump to corrupt the gathering of data in this country. The Washington Post argues it is very significant. John Lchester writing on the Bureau of Labor Statistics says this.The gathering of data exemplifies our ambition for a stable, coherent society. The United States is an enlightenment project based on the supremacy of reason on the idea that things can be empirically tested, that there are self-evident truths, that liberty, progress, and constitutional government wa ...