The U.S. Census Bureau is\nencouraging people who live in the Yakima area to apply for a temporary job\nwith the bureau to help make sure data collected during the 2020 Census is as\naccurate as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The bureau is in the process of\nhiring thousands of workers to assist with the census next year. Article 1, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution\nrequires that a census be conducted. \nOriginally, the main purpose for conducting a census was to establish\nrepresentation in Congress. Today, in\naddition to its many other benefits, the census is an important tool for\ndetermining how state and federal funding is allocated to local governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe amount of funding the City\nof Yakima is eligible to receive from state and federal sources is impacted by\ncensus data,\u201d said Yakima Mayor Kathy Coffey. \n\u201cFor example, funding for transportation projects, community development\ngrants, and school construction are determined in part by the census\nnumbers. That\u2019s why a complete and\naccurate count is so important,\u201d said Coffey. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How more than $675 billion in\nfederal funding, alone, is allocated to local governments is dependent on\ncensus counts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Census Bureau is looking to\nfill a variety of positions. Pay ranges\nfor those positions vary. A Census Taker\nin the Yakima area, for example, will make $14.50 an hour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyone interested in learning more about positions being offered by the Census Bureau and how they can apply for a job is encouraged to visit the bureau\u2019s website athttps:\/\/2020census.gov\/jobs<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The U.S. Census Bureau is encouraging people who live in the Yakima area to apply for a temporary job with the bureau to help make sure data collected during the 2020 Census is as accurate as possible. The bureau is in the process of hiring thousands of workers to assist with the census next year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7049,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047\/revisions\/7049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}