February 20, 2025
The public lost access to Census Bureau data for days after a Trump order. An NPR story discussing threats to public data and their implications for communities quotes Karthick Ramakrishnan, Director of AAPI Data, part of the Asian American Research Center at ISSI. Ramakrishnan equates the government actions to censorship, "I think that's something that we need to sit with pretty deeply — with what it means to live in a period of data censorship."