The Trump administration is deleting government data. From infant deaths to hunger...

[Wiz Imp]

9. Yes. But it doesn't appear they're actually destroying the data.

Rather, they stopping surveys or specific questions on surveys or otherwise stopping collecting the data so that data will not be available moving forward. They're also removing public access to other data sets. From the attached article:

1. One in three Americans live near hazardous chemicals. Now it’s harder to tell if you’re one of them
Nearly every US county has facilities that handle toxic chemicals. An EPA tool made it easy to look up where they are.
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But last April, the Trump administration took down this tool.

2. Babies born in the US have a higher chance of dying than almost all other high-income countries. We’ve stopped tracking why

3. Hunger is rampant in the US. But the government is no longer asking people about it

4. More than half of trans youth have considered suicide. But any mention of trans people has been deleted from a critical survey

5. The cost of US climate disasters has climbed to nearly $200bn a year. The government is no longer recording them