Page 9 - Census Workers News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

>> bret: and now some fresh pickings from the political grapevine. a government audit says the census bureau has already wasted millions of dollars in preparation for the 2010 head count and that could multiply unless the agency imposes tighter spending controls. the associated press states that the commerce department report found $3 million was spent on more than 10,000 census workers who were paid $300 apiece for training but quit or were let go before they could perform any work. another 5,000 people collected the same training payment and then worked for a single day or less. costing $1.5...

Plus people on the streets to be census workers, so for a short time at least until july or august, they are going to be showing up in the jobs numbers. but these aren't real jobs created, right? >> that's right. remember there is an extra one billion dollar that is being siphonned from the stimulus phone to beef up these -- money to beef up temporary staffers for the census and pr campaign. >> sean: go to the political aspect of the dangers politically for the republicans. what things they have to watch out for and why the census matters because if the numbers aren't right democrats get more ...

Plus people on the streets to be census workers, so for a short time at least until july or august, they are going to be showing up in the jobs numbers. but these aren't real jobs created, right? >> that's right. remember there is an extra one billion dollar that is being siphonned from the stimulus phone to beef up these -- money to beef up temporary staffers for the census and pr campaign. >> sean: go to the political aspect of the dangers politically for the republicans. what things they have to watch out for and why the census matters because if the numbers aren't right democrats get more ...

You want more jobs and fewer government jobs. march, february, april and may, you see the jump in government jobs and a drop in private sector jobs. june, loss in the public sector, gain in the private sector. same pattern here. give our viewers a sense of what this is important. >> first of all, it is not a complicate td he kwags equation here. the bump up were the census workers, the people knocking on doors and asking people to fill out their forms. we all new and said this back in june that those jobs would disappear later in the summer and that is why you see the big decline that will las...

Latest updates on this topic from reliable sources.