The Census Bureau says it's suspending for two more weeks the hiring of temporary workers and in-person visits in remote communities and areas recovering from natural disasters for the 2020 count.
the bureau has made to salvage plans for the constitutionally mandated count of every person living in the U.S. The numbers are used to redistribute political representation and an estimated $1.5 trillion a year in federal funding for Medicare, Medicaid and other public services to local communities for the next decade.it was reducing the number of on-site workers at its facilities in Jeffersonville, Ind., that process paper questionnaires.
"We strongly encourage all employees to practice 'social distancing' to slow the spread of this coronavirus," the bureau said in a message distributed to employees at the agency's National Processing Center.
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