40,000 workers will start verifying addresses next week

Starting this month, an army of 40,000 U.S. Census Bu-reau workers equipped with lap-tops will fan out to neighborhoods around the country to verify and up-date addresses in preparation for the largest head count in United States history next spring. The verification of addresses is the most labor-intensive component of the bureau's preparations this year for the 2020 count. The workers known as "listers" will cover about a third of the nation's physical area. The Census Bureau conducts a count of every U.S. resident every 10 years. "We're moving later this month into the full-fledged national can-vassing effort," Steven Dillingham, director of the U.S. Census Bureau, said Monday at a news conference in Washington that was livestreamed. The start of the address verifying comes a month after President Don-ald Trump announced his adminis-tration would no longer seek to add a citizenship question.