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...consultants will have plenty to look into. Investors routinely factor in funds to cover the bribes they know they will be forced to pay; schools help students cheat in national exams; well-connected officials are granted public land. Last year, Nairobi City Council officials conducting a headcount of employees turned up hundreds of "ghost" workers who collected paychecks but were not officially employed. Even as City Hall called the investigation a success it was revealed that headcount forms had been fraudulently sold to unofficial workers hoping to escape detection. "The results are there for everybody to see," says Gachukia Nyaga...
LUCENT "Expects to reduce its net headcount...through a combination of force management actions and attrition." Translation: 10,000 jobs lost
...first few minutes alone with the form. Who wants to know, some people may demand? Why do I need to define myself for the government? In defense of the census, I'd argue that those very questions expose the most important reason for participating in a complete and accurate headcount: If we don't define ourselves, the government will do it for us. The idea of a bunch of old white guys sitting around the Capitol Building doling out money for programs according to their warped idea of who is an American should provide adequate impetus for even the most...
...century ago, Frederick Jackson Turner used the 1890 headcount as a springboard for his provocative "frontier thesis," which argued that America's distinctive culture was the result of its pioneering history. The 1980 Census chronicled the "rural renaissance" of the 1970s, when city dwellers headed for the countryside by the tens of thousands. During the following decade, America did exactly the opposite. Preliminary figures from the 1990 Census -- the final tallies won't be available until after July 15 -- depict a nation that has been growing more rapidly and in more complex patterns than ever before. And with the large...
...YORK--New York City filed a formal challenge yesterday to the Census Bureau's headcount in the city in hopes of boosting the count--and preserving federal aid that's tied to population...