It's hard to know what to make of reports surfacing of a possible switch in reporting for the Census Bureau from the Commerce Department (and newly nominated Judd Gregg) to the White House. While most of the media will focus on the upcoming decenial census, I am most concerned about the implications for the business-related activities of the Census. Oversight of the Census Bureau was one of the meatier activities of the Department of Commerce so it is not a trivial activity to be taken on within the new White House. The negative commentators will see conspiracy and jerrymandering (or the like) in the switch, if it actually happens, but perhaps it is more related to the Obama administration's seemingly data-obsessed nature? Time will tell...
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