Posted on 06/04/2010 7:16:59 AM PDT by swamprebel
The U.S. Census said on Wednesday it had 573,779 workers on its payroll in mid-May, suggesting a huge boost in Friday's U.S. employment report. The agency hired hundreds of thousands of temporary workers to help with the once-a-decade Census, and economists have been expecting that to provide a large, if short-lived, lift to the still-suffering U.S. job market.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
How many census workers were employed the last time the US did a census?
These Census workers will run out of work this Summer and will be back in the unemployment line. What kind of numbers juggling will the Administration do to account for that.
550,000 CENSUS WORKERS???? OMG!! That seems totally wrong.
This article with information provided by ACORN buster, James O’ Keefe is instructive ...
Waste, fraud and abuse at 2010 Census
Waste, fraud and abuse continues at the 2010 Census. This week’s stories by Big Government’s James O’Keefe and the New York Post’s John Crudele deserve discussion. Is anyone in Congress listening?
In my May 25th RedState post (”Waste, fraud and abuse at 2010 Census (the most expensive in history)”), I pointed out that the 2000 Census had cost $6.5 billion, while the 2010 Census seems to be heading to at least $15 billion–over twice as much. Wasteful hiring practices were told to Rush Limbaugh and to New York Post business writer John Crudele, who wrote two stories about it. More people were trained than were needed, people were hired and fired and then re-hired and re-trained (counting as two jobs), There
was much duplication of the counting process–inefficiency everywhere!
This is James O’Keefe’s report on the Census for Big Government:
Undercover Census Fraud Investigation – New Jersey
by James O’Keefe
Posted Jun 1st 2010 at 3:22 am in Census, Featured Story, Media Criticism | Comments (296)
On April 27, 2010, I got a job with the United States Census Bureau in New Jersey. With a hidden camera, I caught four Census supervisors encouraging enumerators to falsify information on their time sheets. Over the course of two days of training, I was paid for four hours of work I never did. I was told to take a 70 minute lunch break, was given an hour of travel time to drive 10 minutes, and was told to leave work at 3:30pm. I resigned prior to doing any data collection but confronted Census supervisors who assured me, “no one is going to be auditing that that level,” and “nobody is going to be questioning it except for you.” Another Census supervisor only said he’d adjust my pay after I gave him a letter recanting my hours.
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Yes. Worse, many of them have already been laid off and rehired multiple times before they could collect unemployment benefits. Since they never collected benefits, they were never counted as job losses, but each time they were rehired they were counted has a job created.
John Crudele added this third census story follow-up in Last Tuesday’s New York Post:
Census workers share their horror stories
Posted: 1:06 AM, June 1, 2010
A guy I’ll call Mike has worked for Census 2010 several times in California over the past two years. The last time, he was trained at a facility that was an hour’s drive from his home. He was paid for his commuting time at $17 an hour — which is what he also got while working and training.
Mike says that he, like everyone else, was also given 50 cents a mile for gasoline.
The last time Mike worked for Census, the job lasted two weeks. He and the rest of his class had been promised eight weeks.
Mike says that after each stint with Census he, like everyone else, was given an official “termination” notice. And every time he was rehired Mike had to fill out a new employment application (more paperwork to be processed by paid workers).
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Here are some other workers’ stories.
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* Everything you reported is absolutely true. I was fired three times and rehired. I earned more going to training classes than (working). Several classmates didn’t get any work after completing training.
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* I am a Census worker. I, too, can confirm that they are checking and checking. I checked homes that have already been checked by the enumerators.” The next phase is to go and re-check the checks that we already did twice.
that’s only half of the planned hire of 1 million
and according to reports now coming out, if they do 1 hour of work, that’s aj ob
If the same worker gets fired and rehired- that’s two jobs
You wonder why Barry and the democrats needed such a huge porkulous slush fund-
and here’s a shoutout to the GOP senators from Maine, once again. We have not forgotten you.
Not only do they plump the job count, but there have been several reported cases of them firing and rehiring the same person and counting both hires as new jobs.
Don't know why "economists" would think that. Money has to be pulled out of the economy to pay government employees so they can put the money back into the economy. That may provide briefly inflated employment numbers, but it can hardly be described as a "lift."
thankfully, the markets are no longer responding in a positive fashion to his artificial numbers. The bubble that would create would just make matters worse when reality hits.
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