December 6th, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is providing new estimates showing the U.S. population grew to somewhere between 306 million and 313 million over the last decade. (more)
June 2nd, 2010
“America, real journalism has been dead for a long time now,” announced David Shuster’s favorite investigative journalist James O’Keefe in a Tuesday blog post. “With $1500 Hannah Giles and I were able to break a story that the New York Times couldn’t have broken no matter how many times they mortgaged their building.” Continued O’Keefe, who is most famous for exposing criminal activity at numerous branches of the community activist group ACORN: “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.” (more)
May 27th, 2010
Census officials waded into the online comments section of the New York Post on Wednesday to refute claims that the Census Bureau has been gaming its employment figures. (more)
February 17th, 2010
Thousands of workers hired last year for temporary positions by the U.S. Census Bureau were trained and paid but never worked for the agency, while others who fulfilled assignments overbilled for travel expenses, according to an audit released Tuesday. (more)
January 18th, 2010
High foreclosure rates, an influx of immigrants and a shortened national attention span are all working against the 2010 Census. (more)
January 11th, 2010
Census employees on Sunday pushed their wares — red canvas tote bags, water bottles, stickers — and worked the crowd at a gun and knife show in Abilene, Texas. A few days before that, they chilled out and answered questions at a BCS tailgate party in Pasadena. And in Phoenix last week, census employees treated visitors at the Urban Indian Center to “a DJ mixing the beats, a live band … some Indian hoop dancers,” and “delicious Indian fried bread loaded with beans, lettuce and cheese,” according to the department’s website. (more)
