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Butler County bureau is one  of 13 new offices planned in  Ohio for the 2010 count.

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By Josh Sweigart, Staff Writer 1:37 AM Tuesday, June 30, 2009

The U.S. Census Bureau is hiring for a new office planned in Butler County that could eventually employ up to 1,000 people.

The bureau is accepting applications through July 9 for six management jobs at an office scheduled to open in October at 7606 Tylers Place Blvd. in West Chester Twp.

Salaries for all these jobs start at $31,000, with the office manager’s salary reaching $59,480. Descriptions of those positions and other details are available through the bureau’s regional Web site, www.census.gov/detroit. Call (866) 861-2010 to schedule a management test and for more information.

This is one of 13 new offices planned in the state for the 2010 Census, each of which will employ 800 to 1,000 office and field employees at the peak of the effort, according to Kim Hunter, media coordinator for the Census Bureau.

These temporary jobs will be hiring over the course of the year and in early 2010.

Most of the workers will be needed to visit homes of people who don’t return mailed questionnaires, a task Hunter called “very, very labor-intensive.”

The ballpark salary range for those jobs is $15 per hour, he said.

The 2010 census is massive both in size and importance. It is the largest peacetime effort conducted by the federal government, according to census officials. It is the basis for apportionment of seats in the U.S. and state legislatures, and the spending of $300 billion annually in federal funds.

Contact this reporter at (513) 820-2175

or jsweigart@coxohio.com.

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ermina salkic
7:38 PM, 7/1/2009

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Yes, refuse more than the number of residents. The rest is none of their business. And yes, ACORN is a corrupt Community Organization that will do the bidding of the Community Organizer in Chief. Why else would Obama take it over (besides the fact that he intends to take over everything while telling you he's not)? America, take at least this small stand - it's now or never.

Roger Titkemeyer
8:13 PM, 6/30/2009

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It's none of your concern how, where or why my kids work - but it IS my business when they can't get a summer job because illegal aliens have taken the unskilled ones.

Get over yourself - "hatred" is such an easy excuse to use when you have no valid defense for illegal aliens affecting our economy and our nation's ability to provide jobs for CITIZENS.

You're pretty defensive about illegal aliens. How many of them do you exploit?

ACORNLIES
6:11 PM, 6/30/2009

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Oops, sorry, didn't realize your kids want to work in chicken processing. Tell them Koch Foods is hiring. They should be prepared to work 10 hour days, stand knee high in chicken waste, and promise not to organize, that way I won't have to pay more than $5.00 for my chickens. I am sure glad I am not being eaten away by my own hatred. It is nice to wake up every morning and enjoy life unencumbered by fear and ignorance. Yippie!

Still RS
2:06 PM, 6/30/2009

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We all need to take the census, and triple the number of people living in our homes. If we don't, farmers and suburbs will have no representation and inner cities where the census is being taken by the acorn crooks will get all the seats in the house.

tom
1:56 PM, 6/30/2009

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