A New York Post report suggests that Census workers faked data used to calculate the unemployment rate.
The report Monday by John Crudele quotes Julius Buckmon, a Census worker in Philadelphia caught fabricating data in a previously undisclosed case from 2010, as saying higher-ups told him to fill in surveys for people he could not contact to reach the 90-percent success rate required by the Labor Department.
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