Cuts at Census Bureau have an impact

Hansi Lo Wang, over at Bluesky, with a thread that starts:

NEW: Census Bureau lost over 1,000 employees through early retirement and voluntary separation offers in recent months and plans to cut some statistical work, acting Director Ron Jarmin says. “It feels a little bit like Thanos snapped his finger and a lot of your friends and colleagues went away.  But fortunately, they didn’t turn into dust. They just retired. But this is going to have an impact,” Jarmin said Thursday at the American Community Survey Data Users Conference. “You can’t lost that many people and keep doing everything that you’re doing.”

Not the first time someone’s compared Trump to Thanos.  Trump did it himself in 2019…

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