President Donald Trump thrust the nation's system for economic data collection into the spotlight in recent days after he fired the head of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Still, the firing risks a chilling effect for data collection at the agency and an economy-wide loss of trust in U.S. data, they said.

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