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July 7, 2006
HOUSTON - In Houston, there are growing signs the city is experiencing compassion fatigue toward Hurricane Katrina evacuees.
One local lawmaker wants what he calls "deadbeat" evacuees to leave.
John Culberson says "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."
But jobless evacuees insist that finding work in the nation's fourth-largest city isn't as simple as Houston's five-percent unemployment rate might suggest.
Neither the city nor FEMA track unemployed evacuees. But a Zogby poll commissioned by the city in March found that 85 percent of the 606 refugees surveyed were out of work. Sixty percent said they were looking for jobs.
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