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U.S. Jobs Report May See Boost From Temporary Hiring for Census

Pedestrians walk though the Times Square neighborhood of New York, U.S., on Friday, March 15, 2019.Photographer: Bloomberg/Bloomberg

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By Reade Pickert

May 2, 2019 at 9:36 PM UTC

Updated on

May 3, 2019 at 4:00 AM UTC

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Temporary federal government hiring for the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 count may give nonfarm payrolls a boost starting with the April jobs report due Friday, economists say.

Census has began recruiting and hiring some of the hundreds of thousands of temporary workers needed for the decennial tally. The bureau said in early March that more than 170,000 recruits had applied for temporary jobs and more than 800 hired.