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  • Evacuees Encounter Obstacles in Job Hunt ("deadbeat" evacuees)

    07/07/2006 11:49:32 AM PDT · by Ellesu · 31 replies · 1,281+ views
    wjla.com ^ | 07/07/06 | AP
    HOUSTON (AP) - In the middle of a Tuesday afternoon, Katrina evacuee Samuel Smith sits on a donated futon and watches a borrowed television in a subsidized apartment the Federal Emergency Management Agency has provided for six months. The unemployed truck driver just started looking for work.That would infuriate U.S. Rep. John Culberson, a Houston Republican who wants what he calls "deadbeat" evacuees from New Orleans out of his city. "Time has long since passed for the able-bodied people from Louisiana to either find a job, return to somewhere in Louisiana or become Houstonians," said Culberson, whose district neighbors the...