Census jobs are a good example of job creation which does not have much to do with long-run growth, but still contributes in an important way to easing the effects of the recession and helping the ...

The Census Bureau is shedding hundreds of thousands of positions, sending workers into a daunting job market.

Somewhere around 700,000 temporary workers were hired to assist with the 2010 Census. Now that their work is ending, these government employees will be thrust back into the weak U.S. job market ...

Melvin Andrews wasted no time getting to the U.S. Census Bureau's open house Monday in Tulsa. "My niece called me five minutes ago," Andrews said after collecting a practice test given to job ...

The census will add jobs in areas that typically lag behind the rest of the country in employment, said Maurice Emsellem, policy co-director at the National Employment Law Project.

Private firms expect the economy to have added more than 500,000 jobs in May, but most are from the Census.