America’s favorite Big Apple newspaper has finally weighed in on the concerns by the GOP about how the Census will be conducted. Check out this article that appeared in today’s New York Times (written by the Associated Press).
From the way this news was reported, the availability of Census jobs may be the most exciting thing that’s happened in KC since the Royals won the 1985 World Series…
For new Census data from the KC-based Kauffman Foundation that discusses how entrepreneurship affects job growth, check out this MSNBC report.
For the millions of Americans who are currently unemployed, short term relief may be found by working for the Census. In towns and cities across America, the Census Bureau is hiring. Ostensibly, competition will be stiff, even in locales nobody’s ever heard of. Check out these local news reports:
Census hiring in Pratt, Kansas
Census hiring in Taylor, Texas
Just as we here at MyTwoCensus.com Headquarters were heading to sleep, the #1 story on CNN became: Redrawing the lines — almost 200 years of gerrymandering. This article discusses the relationship between historical precedents for drawing politically motivated election territory maps and the gerrymandering crisis that America faces today. We wish our fans sweet dreams, and remind you that when we at MyTwoCensus.com we wake up tomorrow, we will continue to fight for our right to have a free, fair, apolitical, accurate Census!
At this juncture, with a Democrat in the White House, and Democrats in control of Congress, many Republican and right-wing organizations fear that the Obama Administration’s desire to have more control over the 2010 Census will bring them harm. To learn about these fears, read the following articles that, with the exception of the LA Times, come from right-leaning publications:
FoxNews: Don’t Mess With the Census
LA Times: Growing political battle over the Census: Latinos versus Republicans
Wall Street Journal: Why Obama Wants Control of the Census
Investor’s Business Daily: Head-Count Case
With only 413 days remaining before “Census Day,” April 1st, 2010, there’s no better time than now to watch a corny video manufactured by the U.S. Government that promotes participating in the Census. Note: At the time of this posting, only 114 people (most likely all from the production company that made it) have viewed this promo.
Remember folks, the results of the 2010 Census will determine how 300 billion of your tax dollars are allocated each year. In the era of 800 billion dollar bailouts, that may not sound like much, but it’s enough money to give many elected officials the jitters.
Just ask Keith Hite, the president of the National Association of Towns & Townships who appears on this video – Come on U.S. government videography team and producers, is he the best celebrity you could find to promote the Census? – and says, “the Census, no matter when it is, is the consummate partnership between local, state, and federal government.” Thanks Keith. We’re glad that from your perch in your Town & Townships Tower (sounds like a Mickey Mouse organization to me) that you still find time to star in promotional videos.
The video goes on to discuss “innovations, like a new, short census form will help to make it even more successful.” I’m familiar with the phrase “less is more,” but how will asking fewer questions (seven in total) yield more accurate data? This “innovation” seems to be a concession to libertarians, most of whom won’t fill out the 2010 Census form anyway.
Only during the video’s photo montage (to the tune of an unknown “hopes and dreams” theme song) do we finally see the microcosm of America as we know it that features brief clips of every racial, ethnic, occupation, ability, class, and age group from sea to shining sea. If you look closely at these pictures, many appear to be stock photos that were likely taken in places other than American soil. Perhaps we at MyTwoCensus are cynics, but this is our job, so we can keep America strong into 2010 and beyond.
The purpose of this blog is to discuss the 2010 U.S. Census.
This blog will serve many functions:
1. MyTwoCensus is the only watchdog of the 2010 U.S. Census (and the first blog devoted to The 2010 U.S. Census, period). Professional journalists, scholars, economists, political scientists, statisticians, historians, and census-taking Americans will use MyTwoCensus to report on all issues and problems that may arise from the bureaucratic data collection process that America experiences every decade.
2. MyTwoCensus is a place where partisan and non-partisan opinions representing all political persuasions can be discussed, with an attempt to strike a balance by discussing all arguments.
3. MyTwoCensus will serve as a forum for U.S. Census-takers (i.e. nearly all Americans aged 18 and higher…at least in a perfect world that’s what it would be) to report shortcomings and successes from the data collection process. You are encouraged to make comments, submit guest blog posts, link to other sites, and provide photos/videos related to your opinions about the 2010 Census and your experiences from the 2010 Census.
4. MyTwoCensus will serve as a place for the hundreds of thousands of Americans who will be employed by the government for this census to share their opinions about the processes involved with the 2010 Census. Workers are encouraged to make comments, submit guest blog posts, link to other sites, and provide photos/videos related to your opinions about the 2010 Census and your experiences from the 2010 Census.
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