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You know the old saying: "Everyone loves a charade." Well, it seems that the Census Bureau may be playing games.

Last week, one of the millions of workers hired by Census 2010 to parade around the country counting Americans blew the whistle on some statistical tricks.

The worker, Naomi Cohn, told The Post that she was hired and fired a number of times by Census. Each time she was hired back, it seems, Census was able to report the creation of a new job to the Labor Department.

A U.S. Census worker has been charged with rape and burglary, after two women in southern Indiana claim they were attacked. One of the victims was a 21 year-old physically handicapped woman. Four days before the attack, neighbors in the area say they saw Miller in the area on census business. The victim told police Miller had asked about their census information. She said they had already submitted the form. She also told police that Miller stuck around and tried to get more details.
http://www.fox59.com/news/wxin-women-raped-by-census-worker-051110,0,357...

census workers — from the head of the Bureau and the Secretary of Commerce (its parent agency) down to the lowliest and newest Census employee — are empowered under federal law to actually demand access to any apartment or any other type of home or room that is rented out, in order to count persons in the abode and for “the collection of statistics.” If the landlord of such apartment or other leased premises refuses to grant the government worker access to your living quarters, whether you are present or not, the landlord can be fined $500.00.

From Bob Barr's blog -- "What many Americans don’t realize, is that census workers — from the head of the Bureau and the Secretary of Commerce (its parent agency) down to the lowliest and newest Census employee — are empowered under federal law to actually demand access to any apartment or any other type of home or room that is rented out, in order to count persons in the abode and for “the collection of statistics.” If the landlord of such apartment or other leased premises refuses to grant the government worker access to your living quarters, whether you are present or not, the landlord ca

51-year-old census worker Bill Sparkman was found this month with the word "fed" scrawled on his chest, hanged from a tree near a cemetery in Daniel Boone National Forest. The FBI is investigating whether he was a victim of anti-government sentiment, and the Census Bureau has suspended door-to-door interviews in rural Clay County, where the body was found.

Has anyone heard anything about identity theft via census? The local census-takers are calling us on the phone, wanting to fill out the census over the phone. That's INCREDIBLY ripe for identity theft.

Fortunes cookies contain bits of insight, a few lucky numbers, and now: U.S. Census Bureau ads.

As a part of its most expensive communications campaign to date – at $340 million — the bureau spent $3,000 to advertising the 2010 Census in 2 million fortune cookies distributed in restaurants and grocery stores in Washington state, Oregon, Idaho and Montana.

For those of us who are demographic buffs, Christmas came four days early when Census Bureau director Robert Groves announced on Tuesday the first results of the 2010 census and the reapportionment of House seats (and therefore electoral votes) among the states.

Nearly one in three Americans failed to return their census questionnaires by Friday’s official deadline, the Census Bureau said.