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But this is not to single out Kaiser (a note of disclosure, I was a Kaiser Media Fellow in 2010). My point is that if you go down the list, think tank by think tank, Indian Country’s data invisibility is glaring.

 

Data invisibility matters because policy decisions are often based on what has been measured (I say often because the premise of austerity itself is contradicted by data, but that’s another story). We need to know what programs work, what’s effective. We need hard information to know how American Indians and Alaska Natives are faring during this decade of austerity.