Industries, researchers were ‘essentially blind’ during shutdown data drought

wildpixel/iStock(WASHINGTON) — Though government agencies reopened their doors nearly two weeks ago, experts have warned that the impact of the longest shutdown in history still lingers with continued delays in the release of key federal data. “We are really fortunate,” said Amitrajeet Batabyal, an economics professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology. “We are probably …

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