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Claire McCaskill: “We have no hope of understanding this problem if the data that we are collecting is not done in a way that it can…”

On the recordApril 25, 2017
We have no hope of understanding this problem if the data that we are collecting is not done in a way that it can support good public policy.
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Claire McCaskill
Democratic · Missouri

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McCaskill stresses the need for consistent data collection to inform public policy.

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