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Kick Assiest Blog
Monday, 10 April 2006
Liberals suck
Mood:  chatty
Topic: Yahoo Chat Stuff

Liberals suck the brains out of unborn babies in the third trimester becuase their heads are too large to easily extract them. So a tube attached to a suction machine is inserted in the hole in an infant's head made by stabbing its skull with sharp scissors. Sucking out the brains allows the head to collapse so it can be pulled out of the "mother" with less difficulty.

Liberals suck whole fetuses out of the birth canal in the first trimester using a suction device which is nearly 30 times more powerful than the motor in a home vacuum cleaner. The force of the suction tears the fetal body apart, and it is then sucked out the tube and "disposed of." I've seen a photograh of what the remains look like, and it's the most horrible, gruesome and saddest thing I've ever laid my eyes on.

Liberals suck the joy out of discovery and learning for those schoolchildren they didn't manage to kill in the womb by brainwashing them in the the classroom with leftist propaganda. Despite all their blather about free speech, tolerance and inclusiveness, they bombard students with leftist politics instead of the geography, math or English they should be imparting to these kids to prepare them for a real world in which they must learn how to stand on their own.

Liberals suck the innocence out of our very young children by indoctrinating them with concepts about sex and gender at an age when they cannot even begin to comprehend what is being forced upon them.

Liberals suck the honesty of thought and freedom of expression out of our culture by imposing an ever narrowing political correctness upon it. PC is also known as cultural Marxism, but it now seems to have closer ties to Stalin than Marx.

Liberals suck the magic out of Christmas and blow a blizzard of hollow Winter festiveness over everything to white it out and leave it bland. There's no Santa Claus, kids; go to bed and forget about it. Yeah, there was a Jesus, but he was just a field hippie, not the son of God. And. by the way, God is dead. Happy holidaze!

Liberals suck the competitveness out of playground sports so that our young don't learn how to be manganimous winners and gracious losers- but losers who can learn from their losses how to become winners.

Liberals suck the joy out of life and the life out of humanity.

Liberals suck the majesty out of the American dream by distorting our history and attacking our heritage.

Posted by yaahoo_2006iest at 12:46 AM EDT
Updated: Monday, 10 April 2006 12:49 AM EDT
Devil made her do it: Ann Coulter's 'Godless - The Church of Liberalism' to be released 6/6/06
Mood:  mischievious
Topic: Yahoo Chat Stuff

ANN COULTER 'GODLESS' TO BE RELEASED 6/6/06

The title and theme of a book which received one the largest advance paid to a conservative author can now be revealed:

Ann Coulter's GODLESS is set for release on 6/6/06.

The book -- which condemns what Coulter calls "The Church of Liberalism" -- will have a startling first printing of 500,000 copies, a publishing source tells the DRUDGE REPORT.

With chapter titles such as ON THE SEVENTH DAY GOD RESTED AND LIBERALS SCHEMED, and THE HOLIEST SACRAMENT: ABORTION, controversialist Coulter ups the ante in her fourth book for CROWN FORUM.

Drudge Report Exclusive **
Ann Coulter 'Godless' to be Released 6/6/06

Posted by yaahoo_2006iest at 12:26 AM EDT
Updated: Monday, 10 April 2006 12:34 AM EDT
Sunday, 9 April 2006
Surprise! Democrat Wins 'West Wing' Presidential Election
Mood:  silly
Topic: Lib Loser Stories

SURPRISE! DEMOCRAT WINS 'WEST WING' PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION!

The presidential election depicted Sunday night on NBC's 'WEST WING' would have had a different ending had it been held four months earlier.

The reversal of fortune for Matt Santos -- the Democratic nominee, played by Jimmy Smits, who was the victor -- had nothing to do with any shift in opinion among voters or a liberal ideology of the show's writers and producers.

No...

Instead, Lawrence O'Donnell, an executive producer of the show, said he and his fellow writers had declared Santos the winner only after the death, in mid-December, of John Spencer, who portrayed Santos' running mate.

At the time of Spencer's death, the plot for Sunday night's episode had been set: The election was to be won by Alan Alda's Arnold Vinick, a maverick Republican (modeled a bit on Sen. John McCain), whom many Democrats (including the Democrats who write the show) could learn to love.

But after Spencer died, O'Donnell said in a recent interview, he and his colleagues began to confront a creative dilemma: Would viewers be saddened to see Smits' character lose both his running mate and the election? The writers decided that such an outcome would prove too lopsided, in terms of taxing viewers' emotions, NYT reporter Jacques Steinberg will claim on Monday.

Drudge Report Exclusive ** Surprise! Democrat Wins 'West Wing' Presidential Election!

Posted by yaahoo_2006iest at 11:49 PM EDT
Updated: Sunday, 9 April 2006 11:59 PM EDT
Libtard Ben Affleck: Bush 'Can Be Hung' for Leakgate
Mood:  silly
Topic: Lib Loser Stories

Affleck: Bush 'Can Be Hung' for Leakgate

Actor Ben Affleck has made it very clear where his sympathies lie in the Leakgate affair -- and it isn't with the White House.

Appearing on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," Affleck charged that President Bush "probably also leaked” CIA agent Valerie Plame's name and so "if he did, you can be hung for that! That's treason!" He continued: "You could be killed. That's not a joking around Tom DeLay 'I'll do a year, I bribed the state officials with corporate money.' That's like they shoot you in the battlefield for doing that."

Affleck also called DeLay a "criminal."


News Max.com ~ Carl Limbacher ** Affleck: Bush 'Can Be Hung' for Leakgate

Posted by yaahoo_2006iest at 2:51 PM EDT
Updated: Sunday, 9 April 2006 2:55 PM EDT
Saturday, 8 April 2006
Senior Dem on House Ethics committee under investigation--West Virginia Rep. Mollohan
Mood:  d'oh
Now Playing: LIBTARD ''CULTURE OF CORRUPTION'' ALERT
Topic: Lib Loser Stories

Senior Dem on House Ethics committee under investigation--West Virginia Rep. Mollohan

West Virginia Rep. Mollohan Has Real-Estate Holdings That Also Bring Scrutiny Growth of Budget 'Earmarks'

(Excerpt)
... money has brought more than jobs and building projects to his district. It has formed and financed a tight-knit network of nonprofit institutions in West Virginia that are run by people who contribute regularly to Mr. Mollohan's campaigns, political-action committee and a family foundation. One ...invests in real estate alongside Mr. Mollohan and his wife. The network of contributors also includes private companies that get contracts through these nonprofits.

Such a pattern raises questions about whether the donations or deals might be a way beneficiaries of earmarks could influence the legislator's actions. Now, federal prosecutors have opened an investigation of Mr. Mollohan's finances and whether they were properly disclosed, according to people contacted in the inquiry. Mr. Mollohan (right) hasn't been accused of wrongdoing. A spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Washington, whose public-corruption unit is conducting the inquiry, declined to comment.

... partners with Mr. Mollohan and his wife in five properties in Bald Head Island, N.C., valued in local real-estate records at a total of $2 million. The Mollohans recently bought a $1.45 million oceanfront home on the island, called the Peppervine House, which they rent out for $8,555 a week, next to the Kuhns' house, known as Cape Fearless. ....

Mr. Mollohan's government financial disclosure form, which shows only broad ranges of debts and assets, showed household assets of up to $565,000 in 2000, offset by debt of up to $465,000, including $100,000 in credit-card bills. Four years later, the couple's reported assets had soared to between $6.3 million and $24.9 million, with liabilities of $3.7 million to $13.5 million, mostly mortgages. Mr. Mollohan said his true assets are at the low end of those ranges.

Complete Article: (Origional story requires registration)
Wall Street Journal ~ John R. Wilke ** Senior Dem on House Ethics committee under investigation--West Virginia Rep. Mollohan

NRCC Chairman Tom Reynolds Statement on Congressman Alan Mollohan

WASHINGTON - National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) Chairman Tom Reynolds reacted to a front page report in The Wall Street Journal:

"Today, I am calling on Alan Mollohan to resign from the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct.

"It is no wonder that Mr. Mollohan and Democrat leaders have stalled for so long in getting the Ethics Committee up and running.

"I believe it would be prudent at this point for Mr. Mollohan to resign from the Ethics Committee until this investigation is completed."

National Republican Congressional Committee ~ Chairman Tom Reynolds ** Statement

Here is my prediction for the title of the thread discussing this article on Democratic Underground:

"GOP Culture of Curruption Spreads to honest people."

Posted by yaahoo_2006iest at 12:01 AM EDT
Updated: Sunday, 9 April 2006 1:53 PM EDT
Science teacher shows students offensive Bush video, Is a Dem candidate for Alabama state office
Mood:  silly
Now Playing: LIBTARD EDUCATION ALERT
Topic: Lib Loser Stories

PAGING DAVID HOROWITZ!

An eighth-grade science teacher showed his students a derogatory, profanity-filled Internet film about President Bush and Vice President Cheney, among others. The West Limestone teacher, Steve White, also is running for state office. >>>>>

Teacher who showed students offensive Bush video is candidate for state office

SALEM - An eighth-grade science teacher, who is a Democratic candidate for state office, won't face suspension for showing students a derogatory, profanity-filled Internet film about the president.

Limestone County Superintendent Barry Carroll said Thursday that he talked with West Limestone High School teacher Steve White about showing the film.

"It's a personnel matter, and it's been handled," Carroll said. "Both I and Principal Stan Davis discussed the matter with him. He's not on suspension or anything like that."

Carroll would not specify how he handled it.

White has qualified to run for District 4 state representative, which includes portions of Limestone and Morgan counties.

White ran against Rep. Tommy Carter, D-Elkmont, in 1994 for the District 5 seat. During that Democratic primary, the Alabama Democratic Party ordered a new election because of balloting errors. Carter, who won the initial primary by 27 votes, criticized the party for that decision and tried to stop the new election.

In the new election, Carter won by 1,633 votes.

Carroll said he has notified school board members about the incident, but White won't go before the board.

Board member John Wayne King said he is "confident the matter's been handled, and it won't happen again."

White did not return THE DAILY's phone or e-mail messages.

The video by Filmstripinter national.com opens with the words "American Civics Volume II" and shows black and white clips of war and what appears to be the Great Depression.

It refers to a country at war, the poor getting poorer and jobs moving overseas. Then it shows a color photo of President Bush with a profane caption.

That upset some parents, who complained to school officials about the content of the clips featuring Bush, members of his administration and his supporters.

Other captions, some containing profanity, are shown under photos of Texas Rep. Tom DeLay, Vice President Dick Cheney, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Focus on the Family's Dr. James Dobson and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

The band Big Jim's Ego performs the film's song. As images of Bush's administration scroll across the screen, the song says:

And I know there are those people,

Who say they never are to blame;

And that's not my modus operandi,

I don't play that game.

And then there are some people, who claim the sun shines out their behind

And it's oh so hard to get them to change their mind;

And I've given up trying.

Carroll said White did not give a reason for showing the film. Carroll said the incident occurred before spring break.

Parent Christy Jackson, whose son saw the film in White's class, said she thinks the motivation was political. Jackson said White is anti-Bush.

Jackson said she is upset because she wants her son to respect other people's religion, beliefs and political views.

Pam Wallace, chairwoman of the local Democratic Executive Committee, said she is in Montgomery and had not heard about the incident.

"So I don't see how I can comment on it," Wallace said.

Jim Burden, chairman of the local Republican Party, said, "It bothers me that he took his political opinion into the classroom. That's not what we're paying him to teach. He should be teaching students how to make gold out of lead and stick to science."

District 4 Rep. Micky Hammon, R-Decatur, who is seeking re-election, said this is "absolutely not appropriate material" for eighth grade or high school.

"I know he's my opponent, but I would say this about any teacher who showed something like that. You shouldn't use your position as a teacher to influence children about your political opinions," Hammon said. "That is wrong. He's abusing his authority."

Hammon said legislators are debating getting the Bible taught in schools as an elective, and "we sure don't need to have to come back and battle over stuff like this getting in the classroom."

Hammon said the school system needs to reassure parents that "this won't happen again."

The Decatur Daily ~ Holly Hollman **
Teacher who showed students offensive Bush video is candidate for state office

Michelle Malkin has a link to the film here.
Michelle Malkin.com ** Unhinged Teacher of the Week

What-the-hell-ever happened to teachers sticking to a curriculum? A science teacher showing a film titled "American Civics"??? And the science connection is...??????

This sounds almost as 'progressive' as the Denver teacher who teaches geography as a clash of cultures.

And people wonder why our kid's get though high school and don't understand a damn thing!

Posted by yaahoo_2006iest at 12:01 AM EDT
Updated: Sunday, 9 April 2006 2:33 PM EDT
Friday, 7 April 2006
Early babies dubbed bed blockers, costly treatment of very premature babies is ''bed blocking''
Mood:  d'oh
Now Playing: SOCIALIST HEALTH CARE ALERT
Topic: Lib Loser Stories

Early babies dubbed bed blockers

A row has broken out after experts described the costly treatment of very premature babies as "bed blocking".

A report by the birth specialists' professional body said the care of sicker babies was compromising services for healthier babies and their mothers.

Costs must be considered as experts became able to save more and more earlier babies, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists added.

Premature baby charity Bliss said such babies had as many rights as others.

A Bliss spokesman said to deny a baby born under 25 weeks the right to at least an examination would be a gross abuse of their human rights.

He added: "Decisions as to what course of treatment is appropriate should be based in the individual circumstances of each baby rather than a blanket policy of not treating patients born at less than a certain gestation.

"There are many circumstances in which it would not be ethical to propose aggressive medical intervention and these become apparent during examination of the baby."

Bliss chief executive Rob Williams said: "We might as well have a policy of not treating victims of car crashes which occur at over 50 miles an hour, or denying medical services to those over a certain age."

'Success'
But a spokeswoman for the royal college said there was a proper professional concern around the high death and disability rate of babies born under 25 weeks.

The RCOG report to the Nuffield Council on Bio-ethics said: "Some weight should be given to economic considerations as there is a real issue in neo-natal units of 'bed blocking'; whereby women have to be transferred in labour to other units, compromising both their and their babies' care.

"One of the problems of the 'success' of neonatal intensive care is that the practitioners are always pushing the boundaries.

"There has been a constant need to expand numbers of cots to cover the increasing tendency to try and rescue baby at lower and lower gestations."

President of the Royal College of Paediatrics Professor Alan Craft said many paediatricians would support moves to bring in a model followed in the Netherlands of no active intervention for these very early babies.

Inquiry
He added: "The vast majority of children born at this gestation who do survive have significant disabilities.

"There is a lifetime cost and that needs to be taken into the equation when society tries to decide whether it wants to intervene."

A spokeswoman for the RCOG said the welfare of all mothers and babies requiring care because of premature birth or delivery is of primary concern.

"We would welcome further discussion with colleagues about the management of all mothers and babies in this difficult situation."

The Nuffield Council is conducting a two-year inquiry into prolonging life in premature babies.

'Inhumane'
Among the questions the consultation is asking is whether the economics of treating and then bringing up a disabled child should be a factor in decisions made by doctors and parents about whether to continue treating very sick babies.

Pressure group Patient Concern said the attitude of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists towards premature babies would horrify potential parents.

The group's co-director Joyce Robins said: "Babies born at 24 weeks have nearly a 40% chance of survival. What is the next step? Withholding treatment from anyone with cancer, heart or respiratory disease who has only a 40% chance of a worthwhile life?

"Once we have doctors marking people for life or death on this inhumane basis, we shall find ourselves in a terrifying society."

BBC News ** Early babies dubbed bed blockers

Posted by yaahoo_2006iest at 7:00 PM EDT
More Saddam Mass Graves Found, Media Ignores
Mood:  don't ask
Topic: News

Iraqis Find 8 Mass Graves Containing 1,000 Bodies, Kurds Say

Eight mass graves containing about 1,000 bodies were discovered in northern Iraq, President Jalal Talabani's political party said.

The graves were found yesterday in the villages of al-Asri and Tubazawa, west of Kirkuk, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan said on its Arabic-language Web site today. Two of the sites contained at total of at least 800 bodies, the party said.

Most of the dead were Kurds, while others were Christians who lived in the two majority-Kurdish villages, the PUK said. No further details were immediately available.

Ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein initiated a wave of violence from 1987 to 1988, called the Anfal campaign, to punish the Kurdish minority for siding with Iran in the Iran-Iraq war.

Hussein is facing charges of genocide for that three-phase military campaign, which left as many as 180,000 people dead, and is already on trial for the 1982 massacre of 148 Shiite Muslims from the village of Dujail.

An estimated 500,000 people were killed by the regime in the northern Sulaimaniya, Arbil, and Duhok provinces, which have been under Kurdish control since the end of the 1991 Gulf War, according to Iraq's Human Rights Ministry.

There are at least 290 mass graves across Iraq and about 50 percent of Iraq's population is missing at least one family member, the ministry has said.


Bloomberg ~ Caroline Alexander ** Iraqis Find 8 Mass Graves Containing 1,000 Bodies, Kurds Say

Posted by yaahoo_2006iest at 6:44 PM EDT
Putin Vindicated?, Saddam may have planned terrorist attacks on US
Mood:  chatty
Topic: Yahoo Chat Stuff

Putin Vindicated?

In 2004 the Russian president said that Saddam had planned terrorist attacks on America. New Iraqi documents suggest he may have been right.

In July 2004, during the course of a little-publicized event while on a visit to Kazakhstan, Russian President Vladimir Putin made some unusual remarks:

I can confirm that after the events of September 11, 2001, and up to the military operation in Iraq, Russian special services and Russian intelligence several times received ... information that official organs of Saddam's regime were preparing terrorist acts on the territory of the United States and beyond its borders, at U.S. military and civilian locations.

Putin's remarks were little noticed by the American press, coming as they did so soon after the release of the 9/11 Commission's report. Moreover, despite his strong opposition to the war in Iraq, Putin was unabashedly in favor of Bush's reelection, having earlier criticized Senator Kerry for supporting unilateral action against Serbia while opposing it with regard to Iraq. Putin went so far as to claim in October 2004 that "The goal of international terrorism is to prevent the election of President Bush to a second term."

And one of the newly-released Iraqi documents, BIAP 2003-000654, indicates that Putin may have been on to something. On page 6 of the document it is revealed that:

The top secret letter 2205 of the Military Branch of Al Qadisya on 4/3/2001 announced by the top secret letter 246 from the Command of the military sector of Zi Kar on 8/3/2001 announced to us by the top secret letter 154 from the Command of Ali Military Division on 10/3/2001 we ask to provide that Division with the names of those who desire to volunteer for Suicide Mission to liberate Palestine and to strike American Interests and according what is shown below to please review and inform us.

Written by the commander of Iraq's Ali Bin Abi Taleb Air Base, this document, if authentic, indicates that Iraq was actively recruiting suicide bombers with the intention of targeting U.S. interests at least as far back as early 2001. Nor is this the only document released with the intention of making it clear that Saddam's intentions for carrying out terrorist attacks against other nations--the plans for Blessed July appear to lay out a similar agenda focusing on using the Saddam Fedayeen to carry out a bombing and assassination campaign in London, Iran, and the "self ruled" areas of Iraq, a likely reference to Iraqi Kurdistan. While these documents do not by themselves prove the veracity of Putin's remarks, if they are deemed to be authentic they would appear to indicate that his claims did not occur in a vacuum.

If either document can be verified as accurate, it would seem to refute a long-standing contention among members of the U.S. intelligence community that Iraq ceased its involvement in international terrorism after its failed 1993 plot to assassinate former President George H.W. Bush. Indeed, the following exchange is reported in former counterterrorism chief Dick Clarke's book Against All Enemies:

[Anti-terror czar Dick Clarke said], "I am unaware of any Iraqi-sponsored terrorism directed at the US since 1993, and I think FBI and CIA concur in that judgment?" CIA Deputy Director John McLaughlin replied, "Yes, that is right. We have no evidence of any active Iraqi terrorist threat against the US."

It would be sad to learn that the Russian Federation's intelligence service was better informed as to Iraq's terrorist capabilities than were their American counterparts.

Dan Darling is a counterterrorism consultant.
Weekly Standard ~ Dan Darling ** Putin Vindicated?

Posted by yaahoo_2006iest at 6:35 PM EDT
Unemployment rate drops to 4.7%
Mood:  special
Now Playing: BUSH'S FAULT
Topic: News

I am sure the mainstream media will tear it down and if you can find it, it will be on page 99 of section Z...

March unemployment slips to 4.7%

WASHINGTON - Employers added 211,000 jobs in March and the unemployment rate unexpectedly slipped back to a 4-1/2-year low 4.7%, the government said Friday.

The report is likely to keep concern about potential inflation on the front burner.

The pace of hiring last month was stronger than the 190,000 jobs that had been forecast by analysts, who also had expected the unemployment rate to be unchanged at February's 4.8%. The March rate ended up matching January's jobless rate, which was the lowest in 4 1/2 years.

STATE RATES: A lot depends on where you live.

The Labor Department modestly revised down new hiring in February to 225,000 jobs instead of the 243,000 reported last month. Labor said January new jobs totaled 154,000 instead of 170,000 - a cumulative reduction of 34,000 in the number of jobs created over those two months.

President Bush, whose poll standings have been falling in recent months, said at the White House that the newest figures make an argument for extending and renewing his tax cuts.

"Some are now proposing that we raise taxes either by repealing the tax cuts or letting them expire," he said. "These are the same politicians who told us that letting the American people keep more of their own money would be reckless and irresponsible. They were wrong then and they are wrong now."

Wage growth was less robust than forecast, as average hourly earnings rose 0.2% to $16.49 rather than the 0.3% expected by economists. Over the 12 months through March, wages rose 3.4%, down from 3.5% in the 12 months through February.

Not every sector recorded job growth in March. Manufacturing employment declined 5,000 after shrinking 10,000 in February and transportation industries shed 7,600 jobs last month. But overall hiring in service businesses grew 202,000 last month after increasing 194,000 in February. Goods-producing industries increased payrolls overall by 9,000 in March, fewer than the 31,000 new hires in February.

The report showed the average time that the unemployed spent searching for work in March was 16.9 weeks, down from 17.6 weeks in February.

The employment figures come against the backdrop of a rebounding economy. Analysts believe the economy emerged from an end-of-year funk and grew at an annual rate of 4.5% or higher in the just-ended January-to-March quarter. The economy is expected to moderate in the April-to-June quarter but still turn in a good performance.

Contributing: Associated Press
USA Today ~ Reuters ** March unemployment slips to 4.7%

Statement of
Kathleen P. Utgoff -- Commissioner
Bureau of Labor Statistics

Nonfarm payroll employment rose by 211,000 in March, following an increase of 225,000 in February. During the 12 months ending in March, monthly employment growth averaged 174,000. Over the month, there were widespread job gains in the service-providing sector. The unemployment rate was little changed at 4.7 percent.

Employment in professional and business services rose by 52,000 in March. Several component industries continued to add jobs, including architectural and engineering services, computer systems design, management and consulting services, and services to buildings and dwellings.

The leisure and hospitality industry added 42,000 jobs over the month, largely due to a sizable gain in food services and drinking places. Health care employment increased by 24,000, reflecting continued growth in hospitals, physicians' offices, and home health care services.

A large job gain in general merchandise stores pushed employment in retail trade up by 29,000 in March. Wholesale trade continued to add workers over the month. Financial activities added 16,000 jobs, with continued growth in credit intermediation and in insurance.

In the goods-producing sector, mining employment continued to grow in March, largely in support activities in oil and gas. Employment in manufacturing was about unchanged, as a gain in computer and electronic products was offset by job losses in textile mills and in plastics and rubber products. Construction employment also was essentially unchanged in March, after rising by 81,000 in the previous 2 months.

Average hourly earnings for private production or nonsupervisory workers rose by 3 cents in March, following an increase of 6 cents in February. Over the year, hourly earnings increased by 3.4 percent. The average workweek was unchanged in March, at 33.8 hours. The manufacturing workweek and overtime hours also were unchanged, at 41.0 and 4.5 hours, respectively.

Turning to data from the household survey, both the number of unemployed persons (7.0 million) and the unemployment rate (4.7 percent) were little changed in March. Over the year, the unemployment rate has come down from 5.1 percent. Total employment and the labor force continued to trend up in March. The number of persons working part time for economic reasons edged down over the month.

This month, we again report on the labor force status of survey respondents who evacuated from their homes due to Hurricane Katrina. The data are derived from a special set of questions that have been included in the household survey since October to gather information about evacuees. The estimates do not account for all persons who evacuated from their homes due to the hurricane; information is not gathered on those evacuees who remain outside the scope of the survey, such as those currently living in hotels or shelters.

Data for March indicated that there were about 1 million persons age 16 and over who evacuated from their August residences due to Hurricane Katrina. In March, about one-half of the evacuees were again living in the homes they vacated in August. Among Katrina evacuees identified in March, 53.6 percent were in the labor force, and their unemployment rate was 16.5 percent. Unemployment rates were much lower for those evacuees who were living at their pre-Katrina residences (5.3 percent) than for those who were living elsewhere (34.7 percent).

To summarize the labor market data for March, nonfarm payroll employment rose by 211,000, following a gain of 225,000 in February. The unemployment rate was about unchanged in March at 4.7 percent.

Bureau of Labor Statistics ~ Kathleen P. Utgoff ** Unemployment down to 4.7% (PDF File)

Posted by yaahoo_2006iest at 4:03 PM EDT
Updated: Friday, 7 April 2006 4:28 PM EDT

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