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USAFacts’ new campaign is showing voters that data rules everything around them

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09.06.2026

USAFacts’ new campaign is showing voters that data rules everything around them

USAFacts, helmed by new president Lauren Woodman, says fixing America’s data infrastructure will get people more involved in civic life.

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More than a year into President Donald Trump’s second term, the landscape of the country’s robust public data collection and publishing infrastructure has deteriorated. Federal reports on everything from billion-dollar climate disasters to food insecurity have been scrapped; thousands of workers involved in government data collection have lost their jobs. USAFacts, the not-for-profit focused on making government data more........

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