Census Workers Fired For Counting Imaginary People

I seem to remember that ACORN was involved in placing census workers. Were these folks involved with that? I distinctly remember Fox news yammering about ACORN census workers for weeks - I'd hate for them to be right.

The reason they have a hard time is that they are forced to conduct unwelcomed "interviews of people" instead of just counting them.

The US constitution calls for the enumeration of the population every 10 years- nothing more.

Well, this story confirms the rumors around the office I guess. The people I answer to as a Census enumerator answered to these people.

But for every story of incompetence and fraud in the Census Bureau, there are 100 smart, hardworking Census workers who take pride in their work and realize the importance of good data for Brooklyn.

Plus this shows that our training paid off: we are actively encouraged to report our superiors if they are doing something shady, and because it's such a short job there is really no reason to keep quiet.

the census itself is a scam.

upstate communities and politicians drive the media and fearmongers about being tough on crime, they are so tough on crime that they are unrealistic about living in an urban environment and their jails are filled with minorities from the inner city, this makes their population skyrocket and they get disproprtionate federal fund and have better education, roads and health services even though they have more cows than voters.

the census was also used to round up japanese americans during WW2, the census also helped hitler, and was used to spy on german americans. although its perfectly illegal it will soon be perfectly acceptable to use the census to figure were all the evil muslims are hiding.

and nobody will care because well you know they are not worthy of having rights in redneck america.

Good enough for government work!

It's not really difficult to make a guesstimate of the number of people living in, let's say, a building. Let's say you're way uptown and have a building with 20 units. One apartment contains one family: Mother plus four kids minus a father. That's five. Add in the mother's friend with her four kids and that makes ten. So you have ten people living in that one apartment. You multiply that by 20 and you have 200. However, minus nine because one of those apartments contains a pre-mugged hipster who couldn't afford anything else and refused to move to Queens or Brooklyn.

The building contains 191 people. Off to the next building.

I guess this explains why my neighborhood seemed so crowded lately.

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Streets are full of fired ex-census workers?

"The two were turned in by other workers in the office, and are now redoing possibly tainted interviews."

I don't get it. If they've been fired, why are they redoing the interviews?

Because the Gov. Paid these Enumerators between $18-27 to go out and count people ! If you were the Gov., Wouldn't you want an accurate count done ? As for the Census Workers in-question , I really can't blame them for what they did . I have a couple of friends working for the Census and they tell me the demands are high and the realities are unrealistic ! Meaning: You have some people that don't need the Census and refuse to be interviewed . Then you have the ones that are so busy that they couldn't send in the form prior to the deadline and don't feel like being bothered when a Census worker comes a ringing the bell . All of that and the fact that you have someone for whom probably hasn't worked in a while trying to pay bills . So what do you except them to do to keep that job going ?

My point was that the sentence I quoted says that the two fired workers are the ones doing the recount.

They should get imaginary paychecks