Hiring by the U.S. Census Bureau is expected to spike May’s job figures dramatically. Economist Mark Zandi of Moody’s.com projects the economy will have added 575,000 jobs in May, ...

Predictions that hiring by the Census Bureau would artificially boost May jobs numbers turned out to be wrong; when the numbers came out last week, they were horrible — at least at first glance ...

Erik Jensen had run out of savings and unemployment benefits, and nobody seemed to be hiring. Then, the phone rang. It was the Census asking not if he wanted to fill out a survey, but if he wanted ...

The Census Bureau has reached a $15 million settlement in a class action lawsuit that alleged it discriminated against black and Latino workers who had criminal histories.

Developers have created a new dashboard to visualize state-level Census hiring data as employment efforts for the forthcoming count begin to ramp up. The dashboard was created within the Tennessee ...

Census hiring helped bring the country’s unemployment rate to a 30-year low. Back then, the bureau launched a substantial recruitment drive touting its $14-an-hour pay rates to draw workers.

The U.S. Census Bureau plans to hire nearly 800,000 people by May, an infusion of jobs that is estimated to bring down the unemployment rate temporarily and boost the country's overall economy.

People tired of endlessly posting job applications on the Web, wearing out their shoes at job fairs and yet still never landing a job, take heart. The U.S. Census Bureau is now hiring 15,000 ...

Temporary hiring for the decennial 2010 census has boosted U.S. jobs numbers for the last few months, but in May it looks set to go supernova. Every 10 years the U.S. Census Bureau hires temporary ...

Every household in the country will receive a census questionnaire in 2010. To ensure an accurate and fair count of all populations at all geographic levels in the nation, the Census Bureau needs ...