Friday, February 13, 2009

Don't Politicize the Census Bureau

Wendall Cox reports:
The recent decision by the Obama Administration to place the Census under the control of the White House represents a danger – not only to the integrity of the process but to the underlying assumptions that drive policy in a representative democracy. It is something that smacks of the worst anti-scientific views of the far right and the Bush Administration, or the casual political manipulation of the facts one expects in places like Russia, China or Iran.
You'll want to read this one.