AL - Local Census office having trouble recruiting workers
Experts and officials are not sure why, in the midst of high unemployment, a local office for the U.S. Census Bureau is struggling to find Calhoun County residents to work on the 2010 Census.
Terry Williams, office manager for the Gadsden-based Census office, which covers several counties, said Calhoun County still needs about 600 temporary workers to conduct the 2010 Census. Recruitment is so low there would not be enough workers to conduct the Census if it started today, Williams said.
“It would be difficult,” he said. “We’d have to bring others in from surrounding counties.”
To Williams, the poor recruiting makes little sense in the face of an economic recession and high un-employment. According to the lat-eststatistics from the Alabama Department of Industrial Relations, Calhoun County is facing 10.7 per-cent unemployment – slightly higher than the state average of 10.6 percent.
“Maybe they think getting a job with the Census would screw with their unemployment or maybe they’re scared,” Williams said. “Or possibly, people haven’t gotten the word.”
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Terry Williams, office manager for the Gadsden-based Census office, which covers several counties, said Calhoun County still needs about 600 temporary workers to conduct the 2010 Census. Recruitment is so low there would not be enough workers to conduct the Census if it started today, Williams said.
“It would be difficult,” he said. “We’d have to bring others in from surrounding counties.”
To Williams, the poor recruiting makes little sense in the face of an economic recession and high un-employment. According to the lat-eststatistics from the Alabama Department of Industrial Relations, Calhoun County is facing 10.7 per-cent unemployment – slightly higher than the state average of 10.6 percent.
“Maybe they think getting a job with the Census would screw with their unemployment or maybe they’re scared,” Williams said. “Or possibly, people haven’t gotten the word.”
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Posted by Knucklz at February 28, 2010 10:35 AM 
Categories: Government, Anarchy, Economy, Conspiracy
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Categories: Government, Anarchy, Economy, Conspiracy
Tags: revolution anarchist economy government revolt anarchy
Census is a joke and a waste of tax money
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Census time is here again. Every 10 years, we are required by the Constitution to apportion representatives and direct taxes among the several states. There are no other purposes for the census listed among the powers of Congress, and according to the tenth amendment, Congress has no power to use the census for any other purpose.
Now, according to recent news articles, the Bureau of the Census is spending $350 million in advertising for the 2010 census. That includes $2.5 million on ads during the Super Bowl. These ads are urging people to mail in the questionnaire they will be receiving in the near future. The questionnaire, according to the advertisements, contains 10 questions that we must all answer. That, on its face, is a violation of the constitution. All the census needs to know to do its prescribed duty is the location of each home and how many people live there. The other eight questions are outside their area of constitutional authority.
But that is not all. The Bureau of the Census has announced plans to hire one million part-time workers. There are approximately 310 million people in the United States. That would mean that each employee is responsible to count 310 people. If the majority of Americans mail in their forms, all these million workers have to do is type in the information on the forms into a computer. That should take less than a week for even the slowest workers.
Most cities and counties now have enhanced E-911 systems in place. These systems have a database that contains all the addresses in their area, instructions to locate the homes, and the number and health of the residents. That leaves only those isolated areas not covered by E-911 to be counted by census takers. And we certainly do not need one million of them to do that work.
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I believe it to be in part that citizens are outraged by the unlawful content of the questions in the census this year. Also the fact it's only supposed to be conducted every 4 years.
I'm concerned over the questions of firearms...income, job specifics and the practice of GPS'ing your front door's location.
Government needs to start ANSWERING questions instead of ASKING them of us.
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Is that really on there? About gun ownership? I think I read the 2010 version and I don't recall that.
Wow.
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