A couple of days before April 1st – on March 30th – I was looking at my home city’s newspaper, the Seattle Times, and was surprised to already see an article up about the upcoming census. The author described how they have to “process far more applicants than it will actually need for the jobs” because of the high number of applicants who won’t “pass a criminal background check”. He further describes the perception that families/census takers have of census workers – especially in light of current politics, where certain questions on the census are questioned. I have heard certain family friends complain about this as well, bringing into question what the government really needs to know about our population. Why are these census questions being questioned? What does the government need to know about our population, and why are households questioning this?
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011475397_census30m.html
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