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Census workers topped 550,000 in mid-May
reuters ^ | 6/3/10 | Editing by Leslie Adler

Posted on 06/03/2010 10:07:30 AM PDT by Nachum

(Reuters) - The U.S. Census said on Wednesday it had 573,779 workers on its payroll in mid-May, suggesting a huge boost in Friday's U.S. employment report.

The agency hired hundreds of thousands of temporary workers to help with the once-a-decade Census, and economists have been expecting that to provide a large, if short-lived, lift to the still-suffering U.S. job market.

It was not clear exactly how those jobs would be counted in Friday's closely watched U.S. employment report for May. Economists polled by Reuters forecast an overall gain of 513,000, including a sizable contribution from Census hiring.

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KEYWORDS: census; midmay; topped; workers
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Moses said to the Israelites:
Boys, load up your ass, get on your camel- we're going to the promised land!"

3,000 years later, Obama said to the Census workers:

Boys, sit on your ass, light up a Camel- this is the promised land!

1 posted on 06/03/2010 10:07:30 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, ping


2 posted on 06/03/2010 10:08:52 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum
The guy who leaked the video of ACORN corruption has also got tape of Census workers telling employees to pad out their timesheets, take long lunches, etc.

$17 an hour apparently isn't enough to get competent workers.

3 posted on 06/03/2010 10:09:16 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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To: Nachum

I am sure it’s been mentioned around here, but census workers have reported being laid off and rehired a number of times. Each time is reported out as a new job hire.

Think this system isn’t being jobbed? What a bunch of light-weights we have running this nation.


4 posted on 06/03/2010 10:09:55 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (J. D. Hayworth, the next Senator, the Great State of Arizona - Sen. Poopdeck, Panama is calling...)
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To: Nachum

Temp jobs.....

BTW, where the libtards at to bash Jack Squat Barry for job “created” being mainly temp jobs, you know, like how they said such about Bush’s job numbers? Nowhere to be seen or heard from, as par.


5 posted on 06/03/2010 10:09:59 AM PDT by cranked
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To: Nachum

Whee! Democrat job creation!


6 posted on 06/03/2010 10:10:12 AM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: a fool in paradise

I had also heard that if workers are hired “temporarily” for successive days it might count as a new job each day in the unemployment reports.

Don’t know if that’s the case, but I do suspect that Obama’s cooking the books every way he can.


7 posted on 06/03/2010 10:11:09 AM PDT by cvq3842 (Freedom is worth fighting for.)
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To: a fool in paradise
Recently heard..or read about a guy that said he was hired fired, hired fired....over and over and over by the Census Bureau

Thus making it seem like there was more hiring going on......

Don't know if it's true..but wouldn't put it past them.

8 posted on 06/03/2010 10:12:38 AM PDT by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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To: cvq3842

These books aren’t cooked, they are burnt...................


9 posted on 06/03/2010 10:13:47 AM PDT by Red Badger (There can be a fine line between having a vision and having a hallucination........)
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To: Red Badger

Yup.


10 posted on 06/03/2010 10:14:40 AM PDT by cvq3842 (Freedom is worth fighting for.)
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To: cranked

Remember how all the jobs created under Bush were “hamburger-flipping jobs”? LOL! We got down to 4.5% unemployment because everybody was working at McDonald’s.


11 posted on 06/03/2010 10:14:46 AM PDT by kevao
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To: a fool in paradise

$17 an hour apparently isn’t enough to get competent workers.

A census worker came to my door to bug me because I refused to give out any racial info on my form. She spent most of her time grousing about the guy she replaced. Apparently he should have come around to bug me weeks earlier, but was just too damned lazy and apparently he never did a thing.

I must say she was extremely polite, on the edge of being gun shy. I think she had been taking a royal drubbing from people at their front doors. Still would not answer the race question. I assume she looked at me and took her best guess.


12 posted on 06/03/2010 10:20:27 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Nachum

I would love if they just didn’t count these Gubmint, temporary jobs as “jobs” in the employment numbers.


13 posted on 06/03/2010 10:21:20 AM PDT by NMEwithin
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To: cvq3842

walking around money


14 posted on 06/03/2010 10:24:55 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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To: Nachum

What’s going to happen to the unemployment figures when these temporary “jobs” are over? How will the RATS lie their way out then?


15 posted on 06/03/2010 10:29:35 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: ozzymandus

It’ll be the fault of the GOP takeover of Congress, things were going so well until November...


16 posted on 06/03/2010 10:36:19 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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To: a fool in paradise

The Republicans will be catching a falling knife if elected a majority in Nov.


17 posted on 06/03/2010 10:44:27 AM PDT by griswold3 (Barack Obama’s First Law of Leadership: “I just work here.”)
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To: Nachum

I know!
I’ve had at least 1/2 of them knocking at my door !!!


18 posted on 06/03/2010 10:52:31 AM PDT by MtnMan101 (THE PROBLEM WITH SOCIALISUM IS THAT YOU EVENTUALLY RUN OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY)
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To: Nachum
The U.S. Census said on Wednesday it had 573,779 workers on its payroll in mid-May, suggesting a huge boost in Friday's U.S. employment report

Since these are temp jobs, they should have little or no significance on any reports.

But since Barry and the dims are in charge, it will be trumpeted as an economic recovery. Doncha just love hypocrisy and partisanship?


19 posted on 06/03/2010 10:57:47 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Never trust anyone who points their rear end at God while praying.)
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To: DoughtyOne
I am sure it’s been mentioned around here, but census workers have reported being laid off and rehired a number of times. Each time is reported out as a new job hire.

Think this system isn’t being jobbed? What a bunch of light-weights we have running this nation.


IIRC the NY Post has had articles to this effect.
20 posted on 06/03/2010 11:24:13 AM PDT by algernonpj (He who pays the piper . . .)
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