When the Census Bureau sends out its legions of employees to count American heads two years hence, the roughly 140,000 address canvassers and 580,000 enumerators won’t be armed with custom-built handheld computers. Instead, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez told a House panel on Friday, the government agency will use a paper-based system. The U.S. Commerce Department has dropped a 2006 contract with Harris to design and manufacture devices specifically for the census, at a cost of $3 billion to taxpayers.
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Census 2010: Rock, Paper, Scissors
Posted by: Erika Morphy April 7, 2008 06:00 AMWhen the Census Bureau sends out its legions of employees to count American heads two years hence, the roughly 140,000 address canvassers and 580,000 enumerators won’t be armed with custom-built handheld computers. Instead, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez told a House panel on Friday, the government agency will use a paper-based system. The U.S. Commerce Department has dropped a 2006 contract with Harris to design and manufacture devices specifically for the census, at a cost of $3 billion to taxpayers.