Throwback Thursday: $529K Incomplete 'Census of Samoans'

In 1979, the U.S. Department of Labor spent $140,000 on a never-completed census of the Samoan population of Orange County, California — almost $529,000 in 2021 dollars.

If that wasn’t bad enough, a local Orange County official said he didn’t care that it wasn’t completed, as the point of the study was to put unemployed Santa Ana residents to work.

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