Living Better in San Diego
1/17/2010
Census workers will soon be fanning out across the country and across the nation.
 With the arrival of 2010
comes the once-a-decade U.S. census, along with a number of temporary census
jobs targeted specifically for San Diegans.
As mandated by the Constitution, the census helps allocate
seats in Congress and provides the basis for the redrawing of political
districts, and also helps determine the dispersal of more than $400 billion
dollars a year in federal money to communities.
Census figures are based on actual counts of persons
dwelling in U.S. residential structures, including citizens, non-citizen legal
residents, and non-citizen long-term visitors, and uses special procedures to
ensure those without conventional housing are counted as well, so as not to
exclude the homeless or migrant workers from the count.
A San Diego native and graduate of
San Diego State University, Eric Brown is a 10-year U.S. Army veteran and a Captain in the U.S. Army Reserves, and was awarded the Bronze Star as part of two tours in Iraq. He is now serving as a Partnership Specialist with the Census Bureau in San Diego.
Listeners can go to http://www.census.gov for more information,
and are encouraged to call the local census office on India Street at (619)
684-6100.
Like what you hear? Download this segment HERE.
Mandated by the Constitution, the first U.S. census was taken in 1790.
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