Reason Morning Links: Public Option Returns, Bailout Perks, Ducking the Census

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• White House claims stimulus has "created or saved" 250,000 education jobs.

Census expects low response rate next year due to identity theft, home foreclosures, mistrust of government.

Biggest financial firms were boosting executive pay, perks even as they were collapsing, taking bailout money.

Public option makes a comeback in the Senate.

• South Carolina GOP chairmen pen op-ed defending Sen. Jim DeMint, explaining that he watches over taxpayer money "like a Jew." (Correction: The actual phrase "like a Jew" doesn't appear in the op-ed, and shouldn't have been put in quotes.)