Dear Congress: Save open data

Imagine a government program that helps add over a trillion dollars of value to the economy every year, reduces fraudulent and wasteful government spending, and has widespread bipartisan support. In a time when members of Congress routinely struggle to find common ground, supporting such a valuable and uncontroversial program sounds like a sure winner. Fortunately, this program exists. Unfortunately, unless Congress intervenes, these benefits may disappear on Jan. 20, 2017, when the next presid