Biden Chooses Stats Expert to Lead Census Bureau

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Biden Chooses Stats Expert to Lead Census Bureau
The White House said the president plans to nominate leading statistician Robert Santos to be director of the federal government’s top statistical agency.
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6:07 PM · Apr 13, 2021

https://www.courthousenews.com/biden-chooses-stats-expert-to-lead-census-bureau/

WASHINGTON (CN) — President Joe Biden intends to nominate one of America’s leading statisticians, Robert Santos, as director of the U.S. Census Bureau, the White House announced on Tuesday.

Santos currently serves as the president of the American Statistical Association and as vice president and chief methodologist at the Urban Institute in Washington.

The veteran statistician, who is a third-generation native Mexican American, would be the first person of color to permanently lead the Census Bureau if he is confirmed by the Senate following Biden’s official nomination.

The Census Bureau has been headed only by white directors except for James Holmes, a Black man who briefly led the agency as acting director in 1998.

A former president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Santos has more than 40 years of experience in survey sampling, survey design and social science and policy research, according to a statement from the White House. He is being tapped to lead the Commerce Department agency tasked with counting residents every decade to determine the allocation of federal funds and political representation.

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[Ocelot II]

1. How about that! An appointee who's actually qualified for his job!

Gotta love the new administration...

[crickets]

4. +1

[thenelm1]

5. What a novel idea!!! n/t

[msfiddlestix]

2. Nomination requires Senate confirmation..

I love the resume, if only he can be confirmed among all the other nominations languishing in the Senate.

[cinematicdiversions]

3. Oh I see another representative of Big Math. NT

[reACTIONary]

9. +10 nt

[Celerity]

6. Trump's Census Director To Quit After Trying To Rush Out 'Indefensible' Report

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/18/957302276/trumps-census-director-to-quit-after-trying-to-rush-out-indefensible-report

The Trump-appointed director of the U.S. Census Bureau is stepping down close to a week after whistleblower complaints about his role in attempting to rush out an incomplete data report about noncitizens became public.

In an internal email announcement on Monday, Steven Dillingham said he is retiring from the bureau on Wednesday, more than 11 months before his term expires at the end of this year, according to a Census Bureau employee who spoke to NPR and asked not to be named for fear of retaliation at work.

Dillingham later confirmed his plans, which were first reported by Talking Points Memo, in a blog post on the bureau's website.

Dillingham's departure clears the entire slate of Trump appointees at the federal government's largest statistical agency as its civil servants continue to toil over 2020 census records and prepare for the release of the first results from last year's national head count, which has been delayed until March 6 at the earliest.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. 45 would have appointed the head teller at a bowling alley

[Wounded Bear]

8. Well, that just doesn't make any sense...

(did I really need the sarcasm emoji? )

[reACTIONary]

10. Confirm him, stat! 😀