Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), ranking Republican on the Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives, raised a very intriguing question this week. Is the Obama administration erroneously counting census jobs in their claims that the stimulus package will “save or create” 600,000 jobs over the next 100 days?

“As hiring for the 2010 Census continues, the American people ought to know whether the Obama administration is attempting to include the thousands of temporary and part-time census workers in their count of 600,000 jobs ‘saved or created,’” McHenry said. “Including census workers would be disingenuous at best. I hope the administration will be forthcoming about whether these temporary positions, which would have been created regardless of stimulus spending, are included in their jobs count.”

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