Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: Rapper Ludacris has also helped spread awareness of the 2010 Census . The Census Bureau hired about 635,000 people to try to obtain census information from those living in the US that failed to return their forms ; as of May 28 , 2010 , 113 census workers have been victims of crime while conducting the census .
Simplified: The Twenty-Thrid United States Census , known as Census 2010 or 2010 Census was a count of the population of the United States .