Free government data lowers the cost of academic research, but it can also divert talented people from more productive work ...

The EEOC wants to end employers' obligation to report workforce data on sex, race and ethnicity. Former officials say the plan jeopardizes equal employment opportunities.

The Office of Public Instruction currently collects nearly 200 points of information for school accreditation, funding, and assessing the quality of programming and student well-being. This data, ...

Americans may be so split that we can't even agree on which tech billionaires to hate, but a new survey finds extraordinary, bipartisan unease over how much data government agencies have about us and ...

The Office of Public Instruction currently collects nearly 200 points of information for school accreditation, funding and assessing the quality of programming and student well-being. This data, which ...

“Flying blind amidst heavy fog is a dangerous proposition,” one economist said about the risks of a lapse in official statistics. By Ben Casselman The monthly jobs report on Friday is expected to ...

The data being collected will play a crucial role in assisting the Commission’s analysis of pay, allowances, pensions and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than a year into President Donald Trump’s second term, the landscape of the country’s robust public data collection and ...

A concerning development from the Trump administration has privacy advocates sounding alarm bells nationwide: a plan to consolidate data from dozens of government agencies into what would amount to a ...

In a new push to end some U.S. government surveys, the Trump administration's DOGE team has created its own. This week, Ethan Shaotran, a member of the unit set up by President Trump's billionaire ...