Ridgewood NJ, To help promote the importance of the census, the Mayor’s Committee is sponsoring an essay contest for Ridgewood High School students with a $500 cash prize. Essays should be no longer than 1,500 words and should be emailed to ridgewoodlwv@gmail.com. The deadline for submission of essays for the contest is April 30, 2020.
Ridgewood NJ, according to Judicial Watch ,a decade after a federal probe exposed the U.S. Census Bureau for hiring serious criminals to enter the homes of unsuspecting Americans to gather statistics for the decennial count, the shocking practice continues. As the agency prepares to employ half a million workers in the coming months, it is still enlisting criminals such as sex offenders to help conduct the 2020 count. One regional office recently discovered that it hired a man convicted of a felony involving sex with a child. Despite his criminal record, the man passed the Census Bureau’s background check and a Charlotte, North Carolina Area Census Office (ACO) employed him.
Ridgewood NJ, at Monday nights Ridgewood Board of Education meeting Dr. Fishbein announced that the Village of Ridgewood is actively engaged in preparing for Census 2020.