Who Needs Data?

Cami Koons in Iowa Capital Dispatch:

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has canceled a report that hunger-fighting organizations say was “essential” data to see the results of federal and local policies aimed at ending hunger. 

USDA, in a news release about the decision said the reports were “redundant, costly, politicized” and did “nothing more than fear monger.”

You can’t fix what you don’t measure.