Report: Some census takers who fudged data didn't get fired

[ificandream]

Source: Associated Press/By MIKE SCHNEIDER

Some census takers who falsified information during the 2020 count didn’t have their work redone fully, weren’t fired in a timely manner and in some cases even received bonuses, according to the U.S. Commerce Department’s watchdog group.

The findings released Friday by the Office of Inspector General raise concerns about possible damage to the quality of the once-a-decade head count that determines political power and federal funding,

Off-campus students at colleges and universities were likely undercounted since the census started around the same time students were sent home to stop the spread of COVID-19 in March 2020, the review found.

During the 2020 census, The Associated Press documented cases of census takers who were pressured by their supervisors to enter false information into a computer system about homes they had not visited so they could close cases during the waning days of the census.



Read more: https://apnews.com/article/health-covid-education-census-2020-government-and-politics-b34f615b658a13b6343a41baaf6ca76a?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_7

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Hopefully, someone in Congress demands this be investigated.

[Evolve Dammit]

1. Another day, another insult to America who abides by the Rule of Law.

[jimfields33]

2. red states were undercounted and blue states over counted.

Undercount: Arkansas (-5.04%), Florida (-3.48%), Illinois (-1.97%), Mississippi (-4.11%), Tennessee (-4.78%) and Texas (-1.92%).

: Delaware (+5.45%), Hawaii (+6.79%), Massachusetts (+2.24%), Minnesota (+3.84%), New York (+3.44%), Ohio (+1.49%), Rhode Island (+5.05%) and Utah (+2.59%).


https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022/pes-2020-undercount-overcount-by-state.html

[SoCalDavidS]

3. AMERICA!!!

PATHETIC

[NullTuples]

4. Not sure how it fits with the Constitutional mandate but why not just get numbers from colleges?

They know exactly how many people live there and where each one lives.

[former9thward]

6. Colleges have no idea where off campus students live.

And they have no knowledge of the answers to specific Census questions.

[NullTuples]

7. My apologies; I was referring to on-campus. I assumed off campus would simply be apartment counts.

[Lars39]

8. Not that simple...

there are homeless college students also.

[NullTuples]

11. Definitely. Again, I was only referring to the dorms.

But as was pointed out to me, all that was out the window anyway due to students being sent home due to COVID as the counts were happening.

[former9thward]

10. Yes, but they were sent home for Covid.

So they could be missed at either end.

[NullTuples]

12. Timing is everything - thank you for the reminder.

[Grins]

9. EVERYTHING Trump touches...

…is destroyed.