Source: The Bulwark
by Daniel Schuman
“OpenSecrets, the nonprofit research organization dedicated to disclosing the role of money in politics, laid off one-third of its staff last month due to financial difficulties. This sparked understandable concern in newsrooms, think tanks, and research institutions that rely on OpenSecrets to transform government information into usable data. But OpenSecrets is just the latest in a series of open-government groups to decline or die off over the last decade — a trend that bodes ill for the health of our politics. Let’s count the bodies.” (12/16/24)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/open-government-nonprofits-are-dying-off-just-when-needed-most