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Census Workers: Stemming the Jobless Flood

Alexia Parks | Posted 05.25.2011

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Some of the estimated 700,000 Census Bureau workers, who are "about to be out of work" because their temporary jobs have ended, may actually have been handed a golden opportunity to reinvent themselves.

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Tales From the Census Trail: Training Week, Training Wreck

KT Boyle | Posted 05.25.2011

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Our Census trainer Miss Trudy, bless her heart, managed to inadvertently offend every race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and ethnicity in two days of training.

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Tales From the Census Trail: Know Your Rights

KT Boyle | Posted 05.25.2011

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Don't be fooled: many people will take advantage of Census 2010 to conduct improper interviews, canvas houses, or to strike up a friendly conversation with the cute guy living at Apartment 31B on University Avenue. (Harold, call me.)

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Tales From the Census Trail: KT's Bit

KT Boyle | Posted 05.25.2011

I saw the recession's effects on small town America when I took the test to become a Census worker, and found myself in a room full of businessmen and soccer moms in suits, most over age 40.

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Tales From the Census Trail: Lara's Bit

Lara Janson | Posted 05.25.2011

In this day and age, why is 'Negro' included as a race on the 2010 Census form? I hope to explore this and many more issues as my training as a Census Bureau Crew Leader begins.

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Tales From the Census Trail: Count Us in!

Lara Janson | Posted 05.25.2011

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We're your friendly District Census Takers for the 2010 Census, and it's taken us exactly one full-recession year to give up our dreams of real, meaningful employment and join ranks with the thousands of Americans in need of a part-time government temp job.

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Census Jobs Boost Employment Numbers

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — As census workers gear up to count us, they are counting themselves lucky to be employed. This once-a-decade temporary work force ...

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More Than 100 Census Takers Have Been Assaulted Or Attacked This Month

Washington Post | Ed O'Keefe | Posted 05.25.2011

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More than 113 census takers have been the victims of assaults or attacks this month, the U.S. Census Bureau said late Wednesday. In response to inq...

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Census Worker "Jamie" Outed As Sex Offender Frank Kuni By NJ Mother

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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CAMDEN, N.J. — A New Jersey mother who recognized the face of a Census worker from the state's online database of sex offenders called police, l...

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Queens Immigrants Wary Of Census

nydailynews.com | By Lisa L. Colangelo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Census takers have their work cut out for them in Queens. The ethnically diverse borough boasts immigrants from hundreds of nations. And many of them...

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Official: Census Takers In Kentucky Want Teams After Bill Sparkman's Death

AP | JEFFREY McMURRAY | Posted 05.25.2011

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BIG CREEK, Ky. — The manager of a part-time census taker who died under mysterious circumstances in southeastern Kentucky says other workers are...

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Kentucky Census Worker Committed Suicide, Investigators Say

AP | BRUCE SCHREINER and ROGER ALFORD | Posted 05.25.2011

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FRANKFORT, Ky. — On the surface it all seemed like a gruesome hate crime in a rural part of Kentucky with a history of disdain for the governmen...

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Bill Sparkman, Kentucky Census Worker, May Have Committed Suicide

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and JEFFREY McMURRAY | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Investigators probing the death of a Kentucky census worker found hanging from a tree with the word "fed" scrawled on his chest inc...

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Census Worker Hanging... What Pelosi Warned?

Landon Ross | Posted 05.25.2011

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We don't have all the facts regarding Bill Sparkman's death. Yet the fact that, upon hearing of this incident, politically minded people wonder whether the death was a result of right wing invective is telling.

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Census Worker Killed By Asphyxiation: Police

AP | ROGER ALFORD and JEFFREY McMURRAY | Posted 05.25.2011

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BIG CREEK, Ky. — A part-time census worker found hanging in a rural Kentucky cemetery was naked, gagged and had his hands and feet bound with du...

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Census Worker Death: "Very Serious Concern" That Hanging Was Politically Motivated (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Associated Press reporter Devlin Barrett was on MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow" show Wednesday night to discuss the shocking death of a census worker in Kentu...

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Census Worker Hanged With "Fed" On Body

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and JEFFREY McMURRAY | Posted 05.25.2011

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MANCHESTER, Ky. — A U.S. Census worker found hanged from a tree near a Kentucky cemetery had the word "fed" scrawled on his chest, a law enforce...

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Bill Sparkman: Census Worker Found Hanged

Posted 05.25.2011

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William E. Sparkman Jr. was a 51-year-old single father who once battled Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma while he pursued his teaching degree, according to a Mar...

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