Experts independently resurrect Census Bureau advisory committee axed by Trump administration
Source: msn/AP
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A U.S. Census Bureau advisory committee made up of scientific experts that was axed by the Trump administration earlier this year is resurrecting itself and meeting Thursday with no official blessing or formal ties to the statistical agency.
The reconstitution of the Census Scientific Advisory Committee, rechristened with an “Independent” in front of its name, is a defiant gesture by the research community against the Trump administration's elimination last winter of three advisory committees made up of outside experts from private industry and academia.
Unlike in past meetings, no Census Bureau staffers will be involved directly or indirectly during Thursday's conference. “Will our scientific advice still find an ear at the Census Bureau? I do not know,” said University of North Carolina sociologist Barbara Entwisle, who chairs the committee. “However, it is a certainty that our recommendations will have no effect at all if we do not provide them.”
The decision to get the committee members back together is the latest effort by statisticians, demographers and other researchers to challenge statistical-system changes that they see as worrisome since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January for a second term.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/experts-independently-resurrect-census-bureau-advisory-committee-axed-by-trump-administration/ar-AA1MMvHx
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