The Census Bureau has been propping up the notion that the recession is ending by “creating” tens of thousands of new jobs. But after a week of paid training some census takers are finding that intermittent work is exactly that. A day here and a day there, Net Pay? $45 in a week.
The Census Bureau also didn’t seem to know that the post office won’t deliver to a street address if the resident receives mail at a post office box. That means those folks have to go find a census form to comply with the once in a decade census mandate.
That means that census enumerators will have to be hired to go visit all those homes and speak thousands of people who could have been reached by regular mail.
Many suspect that means hiring a whole new crop of census takers rather than capitalizing on those already hired who don’t have enough to do. That will make the monthly job creation numbers look better for another month or so.
How cynical has our government become?
