Friday, January 08, 2010

2010 Census Hiring Employment Scam

After 24 consecutive months of reported establishment survey job losses, Bloomberg columnist Timothy Homan reports that a massive surge in Census Jobs May Jump-Start U.S. Employment Rebound in 2010. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... 8FY0&pos=6

The 2010 census couldn’t have come at a better time for the U.S. economy. The government will hire about 1.2 million temporary workers in the first half of the year to administer the decennial population count, possibly providing a bridge to gains in private employment later in the year.

The surge will probably dwarf any hiring by private employers early in 2010 as companies delay adding staff until they are convinced the economic recovery will be sustained. Money earned by the clipboard-toting workers going door-to-door to verify the government population survey is likely to be spent, giving the economy an extra lift.

“It’s a short-term stimulus program in which the government’s injecting money into the economy through additional paychecks,â€