census 2010.

Today my friend Zac contacted me about an opportunity to work for the US Government in collecting census information. Basically, for census 2010, the Government is hiring in hoards. And usually with quite good pay, to the tune of $11/hour in Eau Claire's case. Not very many people know about it but the census is a HUGELY important thing.

"Census data are used to distribute Congressional seats to states, to make decisions about what community services to provide, and to distribute $300 billion in federal funds to local, state and tribal governments each year." (my understanding is that this equates to the loss of $1,000 for each person (documented or undocumented... "Federal law protects the personal information you share during the census"), each year over the 10 years that this census is used.
(from the email Zac sent out. . . )

This is just a great experience, I'm so excited. The only thing I need to get ahold of is my passport so I can have 2 valid forms of I.D. These sorts of jobs are popping up all over and while they are only temporary, they are probably going to be avaliable throughout the year. I'd write more about it and about the experience and everything, but I have to study. So this is all, for now.