'Not Enough Time': Census Workers Fear Rushing Count Could Botch Results
'Not Enough Time': Census Workers Fear Rushing Count Could Botch Results Enlarge this image toggle caption LM Otero/AP LM Otero/AP With 50 days left to count every person living in the U.S., Census Bureau workers around the country are facing what many consider an increasingly impossible mission. Sponsor Message Asked for its backup plan in case it cannot complete door-knocking efforts in an area due to COVID-19 or a hurricane, the bureau told NPR in a statement that it is "committed to a complete and accurate count by Sept. "As have hired and census takers have completed training we have been working to get census takers out into the field as quickly as possible," the bureau said. "We're just sending bodies out regardless of whether they're ready or not," said a census field supervisor working in the Mid-Atlantic. Sponsor Message Mihm said Census Bureau officials told the GAO that they were given "hours rather than days or weeks" to revise their plans to finish counting by the end of September.
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