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Katharine Abraham featured in Federal News Network on Data Transparency

Jory Heckman, reporting for Federal News Network on Federal Data Strategy, writes that though the Trump administration has laid the foundation for the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking to move forward with the new data strategy plan, former commission members are calling on Congress to reconsider "some of its unanimous recommendations that never got off the ground."

Faculty Associate Katharine Abraham, former commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, now the director of the Maryland Center for Economics and Policy, noted that the group had a vision for a National Secure Data Service and outlined its role in balancing data security with transparency. "Statistical agencies have to be thinking about how they ensure that the information they put out isn’t inadvertently compromising people’s confidentiality," she said.

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