Two economic advisory groups that provide advice to federal data collectors were abruptly disbanded by the Trump administration.

The U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) recently issued its mandatory five-year benchmark survey to obtain data on ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has disbanded two expert committees that worked with the government to produce ...

The disbanding of committees that consulted on government data — and comments from a senior official about changing how GDP ...

The second group — the Bureau of Economic Analysis Advisory Committee, which consulted on a separate group of economic data — also was terminated. "This will impact the quality of data because ...

The committees’ dismantling comes at a challenging moment for the government statistics agencies, which have faced tight ...

The challenges are further compounded by the fact that statistical agencies — which also include the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U.S. Census Bureau — have faced ...