Census Bureau to hire a half-million part-timers for 2020 headcount

The U.S. Census Bureau is kicking off a campaign to recruit and hire as many as 500,000 temporary workers to help with the largest head count in U.S. history ne...

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The Census Bureau is has launched its recruitment drive to hire 500,000 people nationwide to become part-time enumerators for next year’s decennial census. With the start of the 2020 count fast approaching,  Dale Kelly, chief of field division for the bureau, told Eric White on Federal Drive with Tom Temin  most of the new hires will be used for visits to households that don’t respond to online, telephone and mail-in questionnaires.

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