Boulderites should and probably are quite proud of this list of groups that will help with the 2010 census.
AARP
A. Phillip Randolph Institute
AFL-CIO
American Federation of Government Employees
AFSCME
American Federation of Teachers
Coalition of Labor Union Women
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
Community Action Partnership
Families USA
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Labor Council for the Latin American Advancement
League of Women Voters of the United States
National Black Justice Coalition
National Council of La Raza
National Education Association
Pride at Work
Rainbow Push Coalition
Service Employees International Union
Southern Coalition for Social Justice
United Workers
According to the GAO, potential census workers have trouble supplying accurate fingerprints.
Goldenkoff testified that of the 1,800 workers with criminal backgrounds, 750 — or 42 percent — were terminated because of their records, which included crimes like rape, manslaughter and child abuse.
But about 22 percent of the 162,000 hired so far to conduct the census had “unclassifiable prints” that could not be processed by the FBI because of errors that occurred when the prints were made. Goldenkoff said that, as a result, it was possible 200 individuals with such unclassifiable prints had criminal records but worked anyway.
“Applying these same percentages to the approximately 600,000 people the bureau plans to fingerprint for non-response follow-up, unless the problems with fingerprinting are addressed, we estimate that approximately 785 employees with unclassifiable prints could have disqualifying criminal records but still end up working for the bureau,” he said.
I suppose as long as the census workers are from the above organization accurate fingerprints and background checks are not required?
