>On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> >> The U.S. is maybe the only industrial country that doesn't do this.
>> >> India has a regular publication of social indicators
>> >=========
>> >Exskweeeze me, the US doesn't keep social statistics?
>>
>> Missed that the first time around. What the hell is Noam talking about
>> here?
>
>
>>From Noam Chomsky, *Propaganda and the Public Mind* (South End Press,
>2001), pp. 175f.:
>
>In the United States, unlike other industrial countries, there's no
>national government review of social statistics, but there are private
>reviews
Well, yeah, but the U.S. statistical machinery pumps out data with a breadth and frequency that has few rivals anywhere. Not that people in power care much about what they reveal.
Doug