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To: LindyBill who wrote (367533)	6/5/2010 5:57:46 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	2 Recommendations Respond to of 793957

Friday's May jobs figure is vastly skewed because of the hundreds of thousands of temporary census employees—approximately 411,000—hired to perform the decennial enumeration of the U.S. population and gather concomitant vital information. In the coming days, economists will be assessing the distorting effect the addition of these temporary public sector workers has on the restoration or creation of employment and the overall strength or weakness of the economic recovery. They are churning the rolls, hiring and firing and hiring again, to make the number as big as possible. I heard one unemployed women on an NPR call in show bitterly regret that she had signed up for Census work. She got three weeks of work before she was fired, and lost $4500 of unclaimed unemployment benefits. Now she cannot claim them.