This is interesting, particularly in light of James O’Keefe’s investigation into fraud and waste at the Census:
The U.S. Census purposefully hired more workers than it needed, telling the Office of the Inspector General of the Commerce Department that it did so as a “cost-saving measure,” according to a memorandum that Todd J. Zinser of the inspector general’s office sent to Census Bureau Director Robert Groves last week.
“According to Census,” said Zinser’s May 26 memo to Groves, “‘frontloading’ its workforce (i.e. hiring and training more enumerators than necessary to offset turnover) is a cost-saving measure.” The inspector general’s memo, however, suggested that in at least one Census Bureau operation excessive staff had increased the “cost of operations” and that in another operation deployment of an unnecessarily large number of workers “increased the operation’s direct labor and travel costs.”
It’s also interesting in light of yesterday’s jobs report, which found the Census was the sole driver in hiring last month. Without the Census, unemployment would have risen from 9.9% to 10%, but the Census alone drove it down to 9.7%. Were they looking to goose the unemployment figures?
(Via Instapundit.)
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