In keeping with the theme in today's Reading Recommendations, here's another one not to miss:
In The Kinsman Saga, one of Ben Bova's better books, the setting is a dystopian near future. Among other bleak prognostications, the U.S. government has classified the unemployment rate. Sounded crazy when I read it a couple of decades ago. Now, I'm not so sure.
TPM Muckraker has been maintaining a list of unreleased reports, deletions from government web sites, and gratuitous classifications. The list's entries share the characteristic that none contains data whose publication would threatens national security.
<heavy irony>
What other reason could there possibly be for the suppression, then?
</heavy irony>
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