LA Makes Census Bureau's Nice List
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Bill Sparkman may have been killed because he was a federal worker.
LA is one of only five cities that received a thumbs up from the Census Bureau for its outreach programs.
A compliment's a compliment.
The Pew Charitable Trusts study, released Monday, examined census preparation efforts in 11 major cities. It found only five cities had committed public funds to census outreach -- Los Angeles, New York, Houston, Phoenix and Baltimore.
With the 2010 census looming, major U.S. cities with residents at high risk of being missed are struggling with a shortage of money and manpower to prepare for an accurate count.
When cities had allotted funds, most were at significantly lower levels compared to 2000. City officials expressed concern about a possible poor turnout in the high-stakes count that begins April 1.
They cited difficulties of finding residents due to home foreclosures and skittish immigrants wary of filling out government forms.
We'll pitch in by providing a link to the LA Region Census Bureau website. The Bureau's prime recruitment push begins this season. Most census taker jobs will be filled in the spring.
You can take a Census Practice Test -- you'll need a stopwatch and 30 minutes.
