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Understanding Our Role as Shareholders of America | Poppy MacDonald
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This week on The Nick Halaris Show we are featuring Poppy MacDonald, the President of USAFacts, a non-profit dedicated to empowering the American people with accessible data. USAFacts publishes a must-read weekly newsletter with over 370K subscribers and has become an important rational, non-partisan voice in our over-polarized political world. Its “Just the Facts” video series has over 40M views and its detailed reports are educating American citizens, political leaders, and policymakers alike on the truth about America.
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I wanted to have Poppy on the show to learn more about USAFacts, highlight the incredibly important work they are doing to improve democracy in America, and explore how she got involved and so committed to this mission.
Learn:
How USAFacts manages to navigate over 90K government entities to produce accessible, coherent, and often beautifully organized data on the state of America and the effectiveness of our policies
Why American citizens should start thinking of themselves as shareholders of the government
Why the USAFacts Government 10-k and its America in Facts Report are must-reads for all concerned citizens
How a noble mission to reduce poverty in America led Steve Ballmer in the unexpected direction of focusing on making data more accessible to the American people
What Poppy thinks of the proposal to reduce the deficit via efficiency improvements
Poppy’s fascinating and transformative experiences studying abroad in Nepal and how what she learned there about community motivates her passionate civic work today.
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