beSpacific<p>“You can’t run a country, or any organization, without reliable data, and firing the head of a <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>statistics</span></a> agency because you don’t like the numbers it produces starts a path the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> does not want to go down. At the other end lies a ruined <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a> and a damaged <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a>.”–Andreas V. Georgiou, the former president of the Greek national statistical office <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/BLS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BLS</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maga</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/firing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>firing</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/facts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>facts</span></a> not <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/lies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lies</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/finance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>finance</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/jobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jobs</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/employment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>employment</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/unemployment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unemployment</span></a></p>