About half of those 4,000 or so temporary workers will be laid off this week — many weeks ahead of schedule — because they have run out of work. They managed in less than a month to visit 85 percent of homes that failed to mail in Census forms.
"We actually expected to finish in mid-June. So we're wrapping up ahead of schedule," said W. Todd Hansen, local Census office manager in Salt Lake City.
About that a quarter of enumerators have already been laid off this week, and another quarter will be laid off by the end of the week, Hansen said. They had been making about $13 an hour.
Some enumerators who had been working in urban areas now will be shifted to distant or rural areas to work. Others will continue to follow up on people who were missed or will work on other verification projects. The Deseret News
