Census Hires Could Make U.S. Jobs Report Less Than Meets the Eye
A representative, left, shakes hands with a job seeker at the San Francisco Career Fair & Job Fair in Burlingame, California, U.S. (Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg)

Census Hires Could Make U.S. Jobs Report Less Than Meets the Eye

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(Bloomberg) -- U.S. jobs data due Friday may be inflated by Census Bureau hiring for the 2020 count, and economists say the underlying numbers may show that job gains are slowing.