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Census Bureau director resigns
Posted on 5/9/17 at 10:07 pm
Posted on 5/9/17 at 10:07 pm
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The director of the U.S. Census Bureau is resigning, leaving the agency leaderless at a time when it faces a crisis over funding for the 2020 decennial count of the U.S. population and beyond.
John H. Thompson, who has served as director since 2013 and worked for the bureau for 27 years before that, will leave June 30, the Commerce Department announced Tuesday.
The news, which surprised census experts, follows an April congressional budget allocation for the census that critics say is woefully inadequate. And it comes less than a week after a prickly hearing at which Thompson told lawmakers that cost estimates for a new electronic data collection system had ballooned by nearly 50 percent.
“It’s like two trains going down the track toward each other, with Republicans decrying the budget overrun and Democrats saying the census has been underfunded,” Phil Sparks, co-director of the Census Project, a watchdog organization, said of the May 3 hearing before the House Appropriations subcommittee on commerce, justice and science. “This puts the census in the crosshairs both ways.”
Posted on 5/9/17 at 10:09 pm to Wally Sparks
Census questions are fricking stupid.
Posted on 5/9/17 at 10:10 pm to Wally Sparks
How will this affect reapportionment in 2020 if the funding woes continue?
Posted on 5/9/17 at 10:17 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Hopefully California, New York, and Illinois only have 10% of their populations counted.
Posted on 5/9/17 at 10:18 pm to Wally Sparks
Maybe the dude just wanted to retire. Could you imagine working with bitching and crying Republicans and Democrats for 27 years? Yikes.
Posted on 5/9/17 at 10:18 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
This is important when it comes to states and districts. Watch how this gets fishy at some point. This has got Barry written all over it.
Posted on 5/9/17 at 10:18 pm to Wally Sparks
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John H. Thompson, who has served as director since 2013 and worked for the bureau for 27 years before that, will leave June 30, the Commerce Department announced Tuesday.
So he's never been director during an actual census count.
Posted on 5/9/17 at 10:18 pm to Wally Sparks
The graveyard is full of people who just couldn't be replaced. ![](https://images.tigerdroppings.com/Images/Icons/IconPimp.gif)
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Posted on 5/9/17 at 10:21 pm to member12
That's what I read. In over his head. Drain the swamp. Etc.
Posted on 5/9/17 at 10:25 pm to Wally Sparks
A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
Posted on 5/9/17 at 10:28 pm to Wally Sparks
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Thompson told lawmakers that cost estimates for a new electronic data collection system had ballooned by nearly 50 percent.
Sounds like something is fricky and he wants to exit.
Posted on 5/9/17 at 10:29 pm to Wally Sparks
I guess no one could Count on that dude?
Posted on 5/9/17 at 10:32 pm to Wally Sparks
a want is furiously scanning WaPo to see how exactly he needs to be outraged at Trump about this.
Stay tuned.![](https://images.tigerdroppings.com/Images/Icons/Iconbow.gif)
Stay tuned.
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Posted on 5/9/17 at 10:36 pm to Wally Sparks
Census should go back to reporting to the Commerce Department.
Posted on 5/10/17 at 9:51 am to HonoraryCoonass
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Census should go back to reporting to the Commerce Department.
It still is under Commerce.
Posted on 5/10/17 at 8:36 pm to Wally Sparks
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It still is under Commerce.
Technically true, but Obama changed the hierarchy and had the Census Bureau bypass the Commerce Dept chair, and report directly to him and the White House staff.
Posted on 5/10/17 at 8:52 pm to Wally Sparks
Yessir! I nicked the census man!
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