Americandefault Research

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  "short_summary": "Provides read-only MCP access to query U.S. household economic-distress data including 96 economic indicators, the American Distress Index composite score, and…",
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  "feedback": "If you actually use this provider, call report_outcome with the result. Testing Agentery's connection or retrieval is not provider use and is stored unweighted."
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