This past summer the Census Bureau created jobs for more than 2,000 people across the country. These new workers will do vital work at the local level with special emphasis on getting hard-to-count communities to participate in this year‘s census. The Census Bureau received a billion dollars from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, $120 million of which created these new jobs. The rest of the money went to other critical 2010 Census operations, including expanding the 2010 Census communications and advertising campaign. The new jobs created will last through this summer of 2010, when 2010 Census outreach activities are completed.
For those of you who want to find a part-time job, or are between jobs, or those who just want to earn extra money, the Census Bureau is hiring part-time census takers. In the Westplex, census takers start at $15.25 an hour. You can apply at the Census office on
Bass Pro Drive in
St. Charles. For more, call 636-866-2020. Interested persons can apply at the Census office on
Watson Road in Crestwood. These workers will also start at $15.25 an hour. Call 314-800-0680. Census workers begin at $17 an hour in
St. Louis
City. You can apply at the Census office on
Goodfellow Boulevard in
Saint Louis, or call 314-802-9410.
The “2010 Census Portrait of America Road Tour” starts this week. Each Federal Census Bureau region has its own interactive, traveling exhibit to give people a better understanding of the ten questions on the U.S. Census forms you’ll find in your mailboxes in March. U.S. Census Regional Director Dennis Johnson says the road tour stops in
Kansas City Monday, and then travels to
St. Joseph later this week. The traveling exhibit will visit local festivals and sports events, and will also show up in areas where the census response has been low in the past. Johnson says the idea is to allay suspicions over the reasons behind the questions on the form. The US Census is used to redraw state and local political districts, which directly affects how more than 400 billion dollars a year in federal money is allocated. Find out more about the 2010 census at www.census.gov.
