Importance of national income statistics to the government

it is very important for the government to know all about its citizens  for example like where there is the most crime poverty who voted for who and the population so then when they need to put laws or give money to help a certain population they know why or how

workers of lowell mills were greatly benefited for the waltham type of work which was more a paternalist kind, trying to protect the integrity of this little girls coming from small farmers and providing an adequate place of work, this in an effort to avoid the issues of bad place conditions and immorality that the people in bigger industrialized cities of great britain were experimenting.

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