'Beyond negligent': Census workers describe logistical nightmare as deadline approaches

When Dean Arnold started working for the Census Bureau in late August, the work was more difficult than he had imagined. The agency gave him about two weeks of training as an enumerator after the coronavirus pandemic disrupted the original timeline of the 2020 census this year.

Arnold braved the scorching temperatures of summer in Los Angeles to knock on the doors of people who he was told hadn't filled out the census. He said he felt a civic duty to help, but he couldn't have anticipated the sheer volume...