Mar 11, 2020

Pressing pause on Coachella

Coachella has been rescheduled to the fall over COVID-19 concerns. Christopher Polk/Getty Images for Coachella

Governments around the globe figure out how to fight back against COVID-19. The Coachella and Stagecoach music festivals scheduled for next month get postponed. The federal government still needs to find 500,000 people to work the 2020 census.

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Low unemployment puts strain on census hiring

by Matt Bloom

Mar 11, 2020

The Census Bureau is offering higher wages and pulling workers in from neighboring states.

Christa Bender, a census recruiting assistant, at a hiring fair at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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