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Although Uncle Sam wants you to be a census taker, but not a lot of people want to take Uncle Sam up on his offer.  The census needs about 45,000 people to be census takers in Indiana, but they are having the hardest time finding anyone.

For example, a good friend was in one of the area malls recently and saw two people taking applications for census work, but no one was taking them up on their offer.  Another friend told me the story of a woman who had not one, but two interviews with the census and canceled both of them.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think becoming a census worker is all that difficult. You take a test, bring your paperwork and call it a day.  There’s even a practice test on the Internet so you can sharpen your skills before you go in and take the exam.  The pay is $12-$15 an hour.   You won’t get rich, but you won’t starve either.

With unemployment around 10%, you would think people would be clamoring to get a decent job, albeit only temporary.   This has me reaching one of two conclusions.  First, the economy is not as bad as everyone thinks it is.  Second, maybe a good number of the people who are out of work shouldn’t have been in the workforce in the first place.

By the way, if you know somebody who could use a census job, they should call  the U.S. Census at 1-866-861-2010 or log on to the website for the U.S. Census .

Posted: 02|3|10 at 8:06 am by Abdul Hakim-Shabazz
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  • varangianguard

    Not to be taken as an excuse, but taking this temp job might actually be less than one's unemployment and also might interrupt said unemployment with a second waiting period after the temp job is over.

    When did working become less desirable than not working?

  • pascal

    One reason VG mentions points to why the Indiana Unemployment Trust Fund is bankrupt. The 150 idiots prefer to borrow money so that they can shovel it at non working folks who could be working.
    As to the census work, do you have to join ACORN?

  • Samantha Davidson

    Excuse me on being belated to yesterday's blog about Ed Coleman's proposal to allow people to carry guns in parks and Abdul's weak attempt to take a swipe at Ed Coleman to put in his two cents.

    I am fully aware that Abdul has a serious ego problem and that his posts to minimize people are meant to spur a little ire amongst the people. The more ire he spurs, the more he feels important because bloggers feel the desire to respond to his garbage.

    I am now encouraging all of the good people who care about our Republic and not the Democracy in which Abdul describes and defends to move away from this blog and post directly on Paul Ogden or Gary Welsh's blogs as they are much more intelligent and offer far greater information than Abdul does.

    Let's let Abdul go away and disappear into obscurity just like the ratings on his radio show.

  • http://twitter.com/IndyStudent Matthew Stone

    I was seeing these flyers and promotions on campus and noted a similar lack of interest.

    I might actually make a call. My job is fairly flexible, and I could use some extra cash.

  • IndyRacer57

    Our system of government does not make it easy. What does one do? Stop the unemployment money from coming in by taking this part time job? Maybe you should stop the help from welfare or county to take this job when you are making more on food stamps. The same as two single people living togather. They can loose money by getting married. I know a couple that would lose any benifits that the woman is getting if they married. They have been togather now for some three years. Yes, she gets food stamps and her kids are on medicare and ADC. Why would they want to lose only to get married?

  • Indiana_Barrister

    You could start by stop posting here!

  • Name

    There's no reason to give up receiving unemployment to take a dead-end temporary job!

    The only reason to give up those checks is by getting a good, permanent job!

  • pascal

    The main reason or a main reason that the Fund is bankrupt and Mitch (who did not deal with the problem during an election year) is borrowing money from Uncle Stupid (who is borrowing 40% of his budget) is because our 150 stiffs INCREASED the unemployment compensation to unreasonably high levels. Contra Name's tongue in cheek sarcasm disqualification should be imposed on any unemployed person who has not applied for these jobs. That is, they would get zero unemployment compensation. It would help, too, if Indiana would not mail checks to any out of state address, like Florida. And, if you run into any of our stiffs you might ask them how they intend to pay back these stupid loans THEIR policies are running up.

  • Name

    Here is my experience. I was unemployed when I took the census test last February. I received a perfect score. I am now employed part-time, with flexible hours, and twice have had to turn down a position because I couldn't start the next morning. Most recently, I was called at 9:40pm on a Tuesday night for a position starting the NEXT morning. It required 3 days of training. I was turned away because I was not available for 4 hours of that training. I would imagine some difficulty for anyone to rearrange schedules, find childcare, etc. on such short notice.

  • Taxpayer 834512

    When we made unemployment, food stamps, and other benefits sufficiently, collectively attractive. My guess this is more the fault of states than D.C., but I'm not sure when one starts and the other stops in “typical” instances. Our ideological pursuit of the”Great Society” has not an auspicous path, given we've continually trembled at accusations of being uncaring or racist versus thoroughly means-testing or minding changing economics. I don't disagree with reforms like a foreign policy on impulse power, scuttling armament redundancy, harpooning off-shore tax shelters, and severing(sp?) the the income cap on Social Security contributions, but ignoring economic reality is not a giggly schoolgirl thing to do anymore.

  • shorebreak

    I've been reading that the census now includes 100's of personal details – like religion, ethnicity, employment, and all kinds of other details that are absolutely none of the government's business. I've even heard that census workers are required to carry a gps device to log the specific GPS coordinates for each household and the correlating data.

    When they show up on my doorstep, I'm going to have a copy of any legislator approved (voted for) criteria that the census may request from me. That is the law, regardless of what the census folks tell us or list on their website. If there is anything additional on the form – like my religious preference – I will leave it blank. When the census taker gives me grief over it, I'll tell him he has his information and we're finished.

    So here's why I could NEVER take a census taker position: Some of us are informed citizens who don't cave when government oversteps it's boundaries. When the training begins to cover the collection of data that is not authorized by law, it will probably be only a few short minutes before I'm escorted out of the training room as someone who is not capable of being trained to perform the required scope of work.

  • Dobie

    This is a perfect illustration of the problem we have with our current unemployment system. We pay people to do nothing, but make the rules so strict that people don't have the flexibility to try to help themselves. Take a temporary job – you could lose eligibility for benefits once that job ends.

    We have a ton of things that need to be done at the state and local level, combined with less resources (aka money) to do those things with. Yet we pay people to do nothing but send out a few resumes. Why aren't we demanding that the people collecting unemployment work for what they are receiving? We have issues with education that having a few thousand tutors/teacher assistants could certainly help with. How about helping low-income/resource seniors stay in their own homes instead of going to state-paid medicaid nursing homes by providing assistance with home upkeep and housekeeping? How about having people work in prisons, hospitals or other non-profit organizations? How many parts of our society could be helped (and money saved) by the increased resources?

  • Hank Emerson

    I stopped listening to Abdul's radio show years ago because he is an arrogant self serving idiot. He is so full of himself that he feels that his intelligence reigns supreme above all other things in life and he incites negative situations for his own benefit or in a defunct attempt to push people around.

    This just proves that Abdul is a coward and should move back to Illinois and get the HELL out of Indiana! You defend Brizzi. You defend Tom John's and all the other f*ups in the GOP who are screwing the people and we think you are a traitor. Go cry to your psychopathic friends and track my IP and post it!

  • http://indystudent.blogspot.com/ Matthew Stone

    Abul and I don't always agree, but man, even that is bit too far out for me.

  • Indiana_Barrister

    Hank,

    You may hate the show, but obviously you love the blog. Thanks for playing!

  • Hector

    I agree with almost nothing Abdul says but you are over the line. Hank take your meds and calm down.

  • Taxpayer 834512

    Whooow. Suddenly, Rico's lookin' mellow.

  • Hector

    shorebreak, would you enlighten us on your source of the info that you say you hear…….

  • shorebreak
  • melyssa

    If I drew a welfare check or unemployment, I probably would have no incentive to get off my butt and be a census taker.

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