BLS has lost valuable user & technical advice and reduces its transparency. #DUAC and #BLSTAC members were unpaid outside experts & data users who advised BLS on how to improve its products.
Webpages for DUAC & BLSTAC, past meetings' agendas, papers & slide decks are now gone from the BLS website.

R.I.P. #DUAC & #BLSTAC. The Labor Sec. just terminated BLS’s 2 remaining advisory committees. Members got notice today (3/19/25). See attached text.
#FESAC, which served #BLS, BEA & Census jointly, was axed on 3/4/25.
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