What gets measured gets managed.
What gets hidden gets exploited.
The government publishes numbers that move markets, shape policy, and decide elections. But agencies are being gutted, commissioners fired for publishing inconvenient data, and budgets slashed for the people who do the counting. We track the numbers they publish, the revisions they quietly make, and the gaps between what they say and what independent sources find.
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Labor Data Watch
The president fired the head of the agency that counts American jobs. The agency lost a fifth of its staff and faces a $56 million budget cut. Every month, they still publish a number — and every month, a private firm counts independently and gets a different one. We track both, surface the quiet revisions, and show you what the headlines leave out.
Wealth in America
Productivity doubled since 1979. Wages barely moved. Where did the money go? We track CEO-to-worker pay, wealth concentration, and the math behind why working harder stopped meaning earning more.
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