You know the old saying: "Everyone loves a charade." Well, it seems thatKudos to John Crudele of the New York Post for breaking this story. It really ties a bunch of hanging storylines together - Rahm Emanuel's insistence that he run the census out of the White House, the unemployment numbers that seemed to level out and reverse course around the same time the census started and, well, the way everything the Obama administration touches turns into a scheme to further Obama's agenda.
the Census Bureau may be playing games.
Last week, one of the millions of workers hired by Census 2010 to
parade around the country counting Americans blew the whistle on some
statistical tricks.
The worker, Naomi Cohn, told The Post that she was hired and
fired a number of times by Census. Each time she was hired back, it seems, Census was able to report the creation of anew job to the Labor Department.
Source: NY Post
Here's some more:
Each month Census gives Labor a figure on the number of workers it has
hired. That figure goes into the closely followed monthly employment report
Labor provides. For the past two months the hiring by Census has made up
a good portion of the new jobs.
Labor doesn't check the Census hiring figure or whether the jobs are
actually new or recycled. It considers a new job to have been created if
someone is hired to work at least one hour a month.
One hour! A month! So, if a worker is
terminated after only one hour and another is hired in her place, then a second
new job can apparently be reported to Labor . (I've been unable
to get Census to explain this to me.)
Source: NY Post
